An Intellectual Property Development Executive, Emmanuel Sackey has criticized government for failing to equip the youth with innovative ideas to go into the agriculture sector. According to him, the failure of government to relay innovative opportunities in agriculture to the youth is pushing them to engage in illegal activities such as galamsey. “Year in year … Read more
The 2017 Ghana CEO summit saw the Akufo-Addo administration urged to formulate and implement the right policies to usher in a new era of enlightenment for the country. The dialogue at the summit centred on how business and government could cooperate to foster innovation and expand opportunities with a focus on digitisation. In the keynote address … Read more
The Police Service is responsible for enforcing IPRs “Does that “thing” work in Ghana? I mean that Intellectual Property thing”, my friend Dzifa asked me innocently. I smiled. It was not an unusual question. Intellectual property generally refers to creations of the mind or intellect. We are all naturally creative, finding solutions to our day-to-day … Read more
Few weeks after some outstanding royalties were paid to some musicians, dancehall artiste Shattawale has asked the Ghana Music Rights Organisation to pay his share of the royalties or face dire consequences. The controversial artiste on Wednesday, 3rd May, 2017 posted on Facebook: “GHAMRO, are you ready to pay my royalties or you want me … Read more
The Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) has called for adequate compensation for music rights owners in the country. The body tasked to collect and distribute royalties on behalf of right owners noted that proper reward is the sure way to boost the morale of intellectual right owners. This call was contained in a statement issued … Read more
The Registrar General’s Department is anticipating the full implementation of laws on intellectual property as it re-sensitizes individuals and organizations on global standards of protecting one’s intellectual property. The sensitization forms part of Ghana’s participation in the World intellectual property day which comes off on Wednesday, April 26, 2017. It also forms part of moves … Read more
The PRO of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation, (GHAMRO) Prince Tsegah has revealed that the Rex Omar led GHAMRO administration has so far distributed an amount of GhC1, 746,000 as outstanding royalties to about 80 per cent of right owners. According to Prince Tsegah, an amount of GHC411, 640 which forms part of royalties collected … Read more
First Vice Chair for the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO), Alhaji Ahmed Banda aka Bandex has backed highlife legend Randy Nunoo and some other colleague musicians who are agitating that the Kojo Antwi led administration has failed to distribute royalties to musicians. According to them,although royalties have been collected for and on behalf of members, … Read more
Catherine Afeku, the minister-nominee for tourism, culture and creative arts, says government will ensure the setting up of an enforcement unit to deal with persons who pirate the creative works of artistes in the country. She said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will in its first term get a division in the fast track … Read more
Catherine Afeku, the minister-nominee for tourism, culture and creative arts, says government will ensure the setting up of an enforcement unit to deal with persons who pirate the creative works of artistes in the country. She said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will in its first term get a division in the fast track … Read more
“Copyright laws allow people to use other person’s work 70 years after their death without quoting them.” The above statement has been circulating on social media since President Akufo-Addo’s inauguration speech and the raging controversy over the quotations without attribution in his delivery last Saturday. This is a statement with a modicum of the law … Read more
“Copyright laws allow people to use other person’s work 70 years after their death without quoting them.” The above statement has been circulating on social media since President Akufo-Addo’s inauguration speech and the raging controversy over the quotations without attribution in his delivery last Saturday. This is a statement with a modicum of the law … Read more
Plagiarism has become endemic in our higher institutions these days because of the proliferation and accessibility of the internet. There are also a number of cases of plagiarism that occurred outside academia, especially in speeches of politicians or their close associates. Few months ago, Melania Trump, wife of American president-elect, Donald Trump, picked verbatim some … Read more
We’ve been down for too long as a people! We can’t continue to stay mute and pretend that all is well! It’s high time Ghanaians must face the reality and stop blaming the politicians for the retardation of our national progress. Despite the fact that we’ve entrusted in their hands with our resources doesn’t mean … Read more
We’ve been down for too long as a people! We can’t continue to stay mute and pretend that all is well! It’s high time Ghanaians must face the reality and stop blaming the politicians for the retardation of our national progress. Despite the fact that we’ve entrusted in their hands with our resources doesn’t mean … Read more
The human being and the stupid arguments about words – “PLAGIARISM” Stupidity will never cease to be with the human mind and its like-minded sycophantic supporters. No human being has the patent right to words. Whatever you say has been said before. Whatever one has thought about had been thought about before. Bush and Clinton … Read more
Sensational musician, Worlasi wishes there were proper structures in place to check the number of times his songs are played by radio stations and receive royalties accordingly instead of being disturbed with twitter notifications of presenters playing his songs. Interacting with the media prior to M.anifest’s Manifestivities, Worlasi said though it is good to get … Read more
A new film law is in the offing. The Development and classification of Film Bill, 2016 is geared towards addressing challenges in the cinematography industry. Speaking in Parliament after the House had made some fine tuning to the Bill, the Chairman of the Youth, Sports and Culture committee, Kobena Mensah Woyome, said the existing law … Read more
GNA Feature by Kwabia Owusu-Mensah Kumasi, Oct 04, GNA – ‘In Africa, when an old man dies, it is a library burning’ (Hampate Ba, 1960, UNESCO conference). This quotation implies that in Africa, when a knowledgeable old person dies, a whole body or library of knowledge disappears – gets completely lost. This is because in … Read more
Video sites such as YouTube will be forced to pay more to musicians and record companies under plans to reform European copyright laws. The draft directive will also require publishers and producers to tell performers or authors what profits their works have generated. The music industry has long criticised YouTube for failing to pay enough … Read more