{"id":446784,"date":"2017-12-13T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/musicians-will-not-get-royalties-for-christmas-new-year-ghamro\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:34:21","slug":"musicians-will-not-get-royalties-for-christmas-new-year-ghamro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/musicians-will-not-get-royalties-for-christmas-new-year-ghamro\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians will not get royalties for Christmas, New Year &#8211; GHAMRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Wednesday, 13 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/85068346.295.jpg\" alt=\"Rex Omar Newnew\" title=\"Rex Omar Newnew\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>GHAMRO chairman, Rex Omar<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817981905\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817981905\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513186461_861_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Musicians will not get their royalties in time for Christmas and New Year, the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO), has disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>GHAMRO, in a statement copied to Myjoyonline.com, said there will be late distribution of December 2017 royalties to members of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>The rights body noted that they may not be able to fulfil their obligation to musicians because they are yet to receive the statutory blank levy payment from\u00a0government.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full statement below:<\/p>\n<p><b>Possible late distribution of December, 2017 royalties<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) wishes to affirm the maturity of royalties to its members\u00a0for the December 2017 season , but unfortunately\u00a0payment to members MAY delay in reaching them before the Christmas and New Year festivities, due to circumstances beyond our control.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThis predicament, is born out of\u00a0the fact that GHAMRO is yet to receive the statutory blank levy payment from Government to enable prompt distribution of royalties\u00a0for this particular season.<\/p>\n<p>Cognisance must be taken of the fact that in August this year, GHAMRO distributed GHC 1 million, to music right owners\u00a0which was not payment received\u00a0from the blank levy funds from government, but internally generated money\u00a0from collections made by GHAMRO from commercial music users in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the above reason GHAMRO does not have\u00a0the financial capacity to effectively pay the desired minimum amount as royalties, to the music right owners in Ghana,\u00a0barely 4 months from the last distribution based on collections only.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the above payment of royalties in August , an earlier payment was executed in\u00a0 April, 2017 which was arrears for December, 2016,\u00a0making this December season the third, if GHAMRO is able to meet the &#8220;before Christmas &#8220;deadline as expected by the members.<\/p>\n<p>The Board and Management of GHAMRO\u00a0assures members that very soon, royalties shall be paid to 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