Musicians cry more than piracy

Leisure of Monday, 22 June 2020

Source: Each day Guide Community

2020-06-22

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A portion of Ghanaian musicians has expressed dissatisfaction with the way the Copyright Monitoring Staff (CMT) has tackled challenges of songs piracy, indicating the workforce has not compensated considerably notice to the menace.

They accused the copyright checking group, which was introduced in July 2018, of not executing its greatest in arresting those people behind audio piracy in Ghana.

The CMT’s mandate, BEATWAVES gathered, was to monitor copyright operates in Ghana, look into cases in regard of copyright, undertake anti-piracy routines and carry out other functions that were being essential to defend songs stakeholders.

According to the musicians, piracy undermined the legit current market, impoverished music suitable homeowners which includes producers and deprived govt of its tax earnings.

They described that piracy experienced for numerous decades been destroying the music industry as it experienced prevented various musicians like Daddy Lumba, Amakye Dede, Rex Omar and Pat Thomas among many others who experienced the opportunity for releasing albums each 12 months from accomplishing so.

They mentioned that Ghana’s music sector experienced been on the drop above the yrs due to the laxity of rules that experienced to look at the functions of tunes pirates, including that the proliferation of modern-day engineering was hampering the efforts of new music stakeholders to battle piracy.

They unveiled that tunes pirates downloaded songs on pen drives and CDs amid many others and sold them on some principal streets as very well as some of sector centres especially in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi and Cape Coastline.

They added that the problems in imposing guidelines versus piracy of tunes in the place was a serious canker, including that pirated variations of creative will work protected at the very least 60 for each cent of the market in Accra and Kumasi—the determine could be as significant as 75 for every cent.

In a individual job interview, the musicians emphasized that while some of them had been undertaking all they could to combat piracy, what they expected most to be effective in their bid was large governing administration assistance.

They urged that the Copyright Office environment jointly with the CMT to established training and recognition development strategies by utilizing the media to teach the public about the things to do of music pirates.

The musicians, who described audio pirates in the place as intruders, also termed for powerful legal technique in the state to deal with offenders.

They, on the other hand, recommended the involvement of IT experts in the fight against piracy so that a signifies could be utilized to make certain musical will work could not be downloaded.