Adedunmade Onibokun & Co is a full-service commercial law firm located in Lagos, Nigeria.
Lagos, Nigeria
Joined May 2016
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Dear Artist, your painting sells for $32,000. The gallery collects the money. But months later, you are still chasing your share.
This is not just a payment dispute. It is a reminder of why artists need proper contractual protection when working with galleries.
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Copyright protects the expression of an idea, not the idea.
In a photograph, that means your lighting, posing, composition, angle and timing. Under the Copyright Act 2022, the photographer owns it on creation.
#Copyright #Photography #ArtLaw
Happy Monday.
Fiat justitia ruat caelum. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
Do the careful thing, even when it's the harder thing. Good week, everyone.
#MondayMotivation #NigerianLaw #AOCSolicitors
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A gallery sale closes in August. The artist still hasn't been paid. Then comes the lawyer's letter.
Ignore it? Fight it? Or sit down with a neutral person and resolve it?
Mediation can protect relationships and reputations. Gallery owners: put mediation first. #ArtLaw
Nigeria has no overarching entertainment statute.
Instead: the Constitution (s.39(1) freedom of expression), the Copyright Act 2022, Trade Marks Act, Patents and Designs Act, NBC Act, NFVCB Act 1993 and the Nigerian Film Corporation Act 1979.
One industry. Many regimes.
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Gallery deals. Cultural property. NFTs.
African art is selling globally. Are lawyers ready?
Art Law at #CTL2026 is taught by Adedunmade Onibokun of AOC Solicitors.
📅 28–29 Oct | 9 days to go
selar.com/11h84v18ag
#LawlexisNG
Lagos in the room. Lawyers on Zoom. Registrations coming in from beyond Nigeria, including Ghana.
CTL 2026 is built so no lawyer has to be in Lagos to be in the conversation.
📅 28-29 Oct | 13 days to go
Register: selar.com/11h84v18ag
#CTL2026 #LawlexisNG
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Nollywood is a global export, and the contracts behind it are where lawyers earn their keep.
Film Law at CTL 2026 is taught by Omotayo Inakoju, Head of Legal at EbonyLife Group.
Reg: selar.com/11h84v18ag
"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
#MondayMotivation #NigerianLaw #LegalLife
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Meet the faculty: Bernice Ofunre Asein @legallysavvy_ng
Founder & Executive Director, Fashion Law Institute;
Lead Counsel, Cardinal Counsel.
Trained at Milano Fashion Institute.
Nominated for the Future Awards Africa Prize for Law.
Register: selar.com/11h84v18ag
In the Peter Nielsen case, the Lagos High Court sentenced a man to death partly on DNA evidence from nail scrapings.
Nigerian courts now accept forensic DNA evidence — even in capital proceedings.
But all computer-generated evidence in Nigeria must satisfy s.84 of the -
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Day 8 of State of the Nigerian Art Industry.
Problem 6: our domestic collector base is too small, and it's making the whole market fragile. 🧵
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State of the Nigerian Art Industry.
Problem 5: nobody can properly invest in, or make policy for, a sector with almost no reliable data. 🧵
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Nigeria's art market has talent, international demand, and growing visibility. What it doesn't have is access to capital.
For most artists and galleries, there is virtually no way to finance growth or borrow against the value they've already created.
#StateOfNigerianArt
