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Decorated rapper Sarkodie has thrown his weight behind Ghanaian artist Kirani Ayat for taking on the government over a copyright breach.
A few hours ago, Kirani Ayat, called out the Tourism Ministry for using excerpts of his Guda music video to support the #VisitGhana2022 agenda without his consent.
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According to him, he is expecting to be paid royalties due him because he didn’t give the green light for his content to be used by the Government of Ghana.
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He took to his Twitter a few hours ago and tweeted, “It took blood, sweat, time, efforts, and lots of dollars to make GUDA happen.”
Earlier, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo posted a video on his Twitter timeline, promoting the #VisitGhana2022 agenda to the world.
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Shortly after the video went viral on Twitter, Kirani Ayat called out the government for using his works without his permission.
Taking to Twitter to vent his anger, he tweeted:
“The president of Ghana has used my video ‘GUDA’ in this ad to promote Ghana. I was actively reaching out to the Ministry of Tourism in 2018/19 to use this video to push tourism in the North and got NO reply, yet today it’s in an ad and no one reached out to me for permission.
“Whoever worked on this video should’ve reached out to the rightful content owners before proceeding. I spent my all in making GUDA possible, I’m sure you were paid for this job, where is my cut?“.
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Rapper Sarkodie has reacted to the tweet of Kirani Ayat as he throws his weight behind him for calling out the government over a copyright breach.
Sarkodie tweeted, “Guess this quote is for the people cos if there’s anybody who knows this, I’m here ! People might freak out if they knew how much it takes to achieve that 2 to 3 minutes visual”.
source: www.ghbase.com
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