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REPROGRAPHIC RIGHTS ORGANIZATION OF GHANA
V.
UNIVERSITY OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES (UPSA)

(2025) JELR 114477 (HC)

High Court 7 Apr 2025 Ghana
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- Plaintiff, representing rights holders via the Ghana Reprographic Rights Organization (GHARRO), sued Defendant (a tertiary institution) seeking declarations and remedies for unauthorized mass digital and photocopying of copyrighted works

Case Details

Suit Number:CM/IPR/0069/2022
Judges:HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE GEORGE AIKINS AMPIAH ­BONNEY (JNR.)
Counsel:EDWARD YAW UDZU ESQ HOLDING JOHN ABRAHAM LARKAI ESQ BRIEF FOR THE PLAINTIFF FORTUNATE K.B. FIO ESQ FOR THE DEFENDANT
Location:Accra

JUDGMENT

The Plaintiff caused a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim to be issued on the 2nd Day of November 2022 at the Registry of the Honourable Court against the Defendant praying for the following reliefs:

(i) A declaration that the mass digital and photocopying of literary works by students and lecturers from photocopier machines for teaching and learning at their respective libraries and at the various faculties and by private copy shops on Defendants campuses without a license first obtained by the Defendants constitutes an infringement of the exclusive Reproduction Rights' of Authors and Publishers under the copy rights laws of Ghana

(ii) A Declaration that the Plaintiffs are entitled to compensation as assessed by the Court from the Defendants for loss of reprographic fees due its members for each academic year from the 2004/2005 academic year until the determination of the suit.. 

(iii) Perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants from providing photocopy services their re…

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