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Ghanaian musician and songwriter Trigmatic has waded into the feud between artist Kirani Ayat and Ghana Tourism Authority over a copyright breach.
Recall that artist Kirani Ayat took to his social media page to call 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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In his tweet…
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.
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“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?“.
Wading into the ongoing feud, Trimatic has taken to his Twitter page to lament on how some intellectual properties of people in the creative arts are sometimes misused. He called for a cessation of the exploitation of creative works.
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“Regardless of what the real story is, I expect to see creatives stand behind
@KiraniAYAT as this could be a good case study for many others in time past and the future. IP and its issues are often taken for granted on this side and until people are prosecuted for such offenses”.
“Our crafts will continually be taken for granted. It’s one person today and could be you tomorrow. Stop exploiting talents and do the needful.”
Source: www.ghbase.com
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