Court Awards Damages Against Coca-cola Over Copyright Infringement

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Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court has ordered Coca-Cola Nigeria Plc and its bottlers, Nigeria Bottling Company (NBC) to pay N3 million damages

“As well as for infringement of copyright by way of unlawful reproducing and unlawful publishing of substantial similarity of the plaintiff’s particular method in the copyrighted work of the Ramadan Timing for Dawn Meal and Breaking of Fasting for Kwara State, 2015, without his consent, licence and assignment.

But the defendants, through their lawyer, Peter Agboola, urged the court to dismiss the suit for lacking merit. In conclusion, they maintained that there was no agreement or contemplation of any agreement for compensation because the calendars were not used for any economic purpose but for the educational purpose of the Muslim community during the time of Ramadan.

He also held, “from the above definition, a compilation of the “Ramadan Timing for dawn meal for breaking of fasting for Kwara State ” is a literary work I hold.

 

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