Abstract Copyright is an integral part of intellectual property rights which requires better protection to enable its owners to exploit their rights exclusively without infringements by others. Doing so has not always been easy but come with challenges in regard to use of works, scope of protection, remedies available to the owners of works and limitation on protection. In South Sudan, there is no policy and legal framework yet in place to afford any protection to copyrights; thus this explained the dependency of this research on foreign jurisprudence to bridge the gap. This field of intellectual property is unexploited thus owners are subject of infringement in absence of legislation to protect and afford them exclusive rights to benefit from their property. Little effort is being made to save the owners from such unprecedented infringement. This research basically analyzes copyrights, current scope of protection, the challenges, policy and legal framework and makes recommendations to help in the lead to a new law in South Sudan. The research also took into consideration various aspects of this field of intellectual property that would need exploitation and protection by the law. It tries to understand copyrights challenges, policy and legal framework available in South Sudan.
