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Nigerian educational system has placed little or no premium on intellectual property education. Consequently, the efforts of both students and teachers alike at scholarship are seriously plagued with various sheds of copyright violation. One that is so predominant yet oftentimes casually regarded, which this work investigated is plagiarism. In spite of the offhanded manner with which plagiarism is committed, it remains a serious copyright violation that has legal and ethical implications. Adopting the cross-sectional research approach, the researchers conducted four sessions of focus group discussion with eight final year students of Mass Communication at Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State and Redeemers University, Ede, Osun State. Each institution had four participants, two female and two male. Their input was collated and discussed qualitatively. A major finding is that there is a gap in intellectual …