GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT The study investigated the indices of copyright and librarian’s role in the protection of the copyright law in the Universities of Uyo and Calabar libraries.. The population of this study consisted of 67 academic librarians in the Universities of Uyo, Calabar and Port Harcourt. The study adopted an Ex-Post-Facto design. The Data collected from the respondents were coded and transferred into a spreadsheet and summarized. They were coded into the computer and analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) 11.0 while all the hypotheses were tested at .05 alpha. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire. The questionnaire had two sections and was tagged “Academic Librarians and Protection of the Copy-Right Law Questionnaire (ALIPCLAQ)). A total of sixty-seven respondents comprising of academic librarians were sampled. From the results of the data analysis, it was observed that there is remarkable influence of copy right indices with regard to guaranteeing author monopoly of his/her work on copy right law protection (creating awareness and observation) by the librarians in Universities of Uyo and Calabar. Also. Guaranteeing the publisher the monopoly to publish and sell the work has remarkable influence on copy right law protection (creating awareness and observation) by the librarians in Universities of Uyo and Calabar. One of the recommendations was that workshops and seminars should be organized for librarians including state librarians and at all levesl of education on the protection of copyright law and enforcement of the law. This will improve the librarian’s awareness of the copyright law. KEYWORDS: Copyright law, author monopoly, publish, sell, academic librarians