Copyright, Anti-Piracy & Licensing Notice
AcademicPrep holds full legal copyright and compilation rights over all examination papers, marking schemes, curriculum summaries, interactive quizzes, and software solutions published under the academicprep.com platform. Unauthorized replication, scraping, reselling, or redistribution is strictly prosecuted.
1. Statement of Ownership & Statutory Authority
Legal foundation and automatic statutory protection
All materials published on AcademicPrep, including but not limited to trial mock examination question booklets, detailed marking schemes, curriculum breakdown notes, digital flashcards, topic quizzes, application software, and database architecture, are protected by law under:
- The Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) of the Republic of Ghana.
- The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (ensuring automatic transnational copyright enforcement across all 181 signatory member states).
- Universal Copyright Convention and the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT).
Under these statutes, copyright protection exists automatically from the moment of creation and publication. Prior registration is not required to establish legal ownership, issue binding cease and desist directives, or initiate copyright infringement claims.
2. Scope of Protected Works
Materials and compilations subject to exclusive proprietary rights
Original Trial Mocks & Marking Schemes
All mock papers authored, vetted, curated, or formatted by AcademicPrep faculty. This includes original problem formulations, numerical scenarios, diagrams, model answers, and marking scheme rubrics.
Compilation & Database Rights
Even where examination topics reference national syllabi, our selection, arrangement, digitized formatting, structured indexing, typo rectifications, and searchable database hierarchy constitute legally protected original compilations.
Curriculum Notes & Lesson Guides
Synthesized study explanations, step-by-step topic breakdowns, mnemonic guides, and educational summaries prepared for JHS and SHS students.
Software, Source Code & Visual Design
The entire web and mobile application codebase, UI components, interactive test engines, offline storage mechanics, brand iconography, and trade dress.
3. Prohibited Acts (Infringement Criteria)
Actions that constitute direct civil and criminal breach
A party is in direct breach of copyright if they engage in any of the following without prior written authorization from AcademicPrep management:
Re-uploading and Mirroring
Uploading AcademicPrep PDF mock booklets, marking schemes, or study notes onto any external website, Google Drive folder, Telegram channel, WhatsApp group, or file-sharing portal.
Commercial Resale or Bundling
Charging students or schools for access to our mock questions, printing them for retail sale, or bundling them into paid tutoring packages without a commercial distributor license.
Scraping, Extraction & Content Cloning
Using automated bots, HTTP scrapers, AI extraction pipelines, or manual transcription to ingest our quiz questions, answers, or curriculum guides into another app, database, or LMS.
Watermark Removal & Identity Concealment
Cropping, masking, erasing, or editing out AcademicPrep logos, headers, footers, website URLs, or document metadata to pass off materials as their own.
4. Enforcement & Statutory Penalties
Legal consequences and remedial procedures taken against infringers
When copyright infringement is detected, AcademicPrep executes the following non-negotiable legal actions:
Immediate expedited DMCA/host takedown notices filed with the infringer’s hosting service (Vercel, AWS, Cloudflare, Hostinger, etc.) and domain registrars for swift website takedown.
Immediate permanent revocation of student PINs, blacklisting of phone numbers, and blocking of IP subnets linked to accounts involved in data harvesting or piracy.
Institution of legal proceedings under Section 43 of the Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) for statutory damages, recovery of illicit earnings, and reimbursement of all legal expenses.
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Help protect the integrity of students’ academic resources
If you encounter any website, WhatsApp channel, Telegram group, or individual selling, circulating, or re-hosting AcademicPrep mock papers or content without authorization, please notify our legal and compliance desk.