Legal Dilemmas

By                                  Ifeanyi Chukwunonso OGBODO Esq. LL.B (Hons), B.L Tel:  +2348064592005 Email: iogbodo@gmail.com        Introduction Copyright pertains to the exclusive right to publish and distribute a work. The open access environment has created a very novel copyright model which stands in contrast to the traditional model of heavy protection of copyrighted materials. In calling for research papers to be made freely available open access being a publication practice which differs in the way traditional methods of publishing papers to the public get submitted, reviewed, authenticated and finally published; proposes a new business model for academic publishing that enables immediate, worldwide, barrier-free, open access to the full text of research works for the best interest of society. Open access advocates promise that the embrace of their ideology would lead to a simpler, less costly, more democratic, and more effective scholarly communication syste