{"id":1203200,"date":"2022-09-13T07:18:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T07:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/stop-stealing-old-songs-bernard-amankwah-to-upcoming-musicians\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T07:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T07:18:36","slug":"stop-stealing-old-songs-bernard-amankwah-to-upcoming-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/stop-stealing-old-songs-bernard-amankwah-to-upcoming-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop stealing old songs &#8211; Bernard Amankwah to upcoming musicians \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-gospel-musician-and-man-of-god-bernad-amankwah-has-urged-upcoming-musicians-to-desist-from-stealing-the-old-songs-of-people\">Gospel musician and man of God Bernad Amankwah has urged upcoming musicians to desist from stealing the old songs of people. <\/h2>\n<p>It is not news that some artists both gospel artists and gospel musicians have been modernizing old songs and claiming them as their original songs.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: \u2018Down Flat\u2019 has changed my life; I\u2019ve bought lands and a car \u2013 Kelvyn Boy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Bernard Amankwah, most of these artists take the intellectual property of aged musicians without their consent. He described this act as wrong. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>He said this in an exclusive interview with Larry Da Old Man on Onua FM\u2019s Anigye mmere show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I don\u2019t like about today\u2019s musicians is the way they steal people\u2019s songs. They remix older folks\u2019 songs without crediting them. It\u2019s very bad on their side.  is a spirit, and whoever wrote the song, you don\u2019t how God gave it to him or her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Radio presenters elevated your brand, you goofed; apologize \u2013 Adom FM\u2019s Mike 2 to Sarkodie\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThe song is someone\u2019s intellectual property. So if you want to remake it, do it the right way. Go and seek his or her consent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if the owner is no more, they have families. Go and see the family and ask them politely. They may give to them for free. Sometimes you just have to credit the owner. That\u2019s all they require.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.ghbase.com<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Gospel musician and man of God Bernad Amankwah has urged upcoming musicians to desist from stealing the old songs of people. It is not news that some artists both gospel artists and gospel musicians have been modernizing old songs and claiming them as their original songs. READ ALSO: \u2018Down Flat\u2019 has changed my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14091,11112,8313,4662,3244,534,3207],"class_list":["post-1203200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amankwah","tag-bernard","tag-musicians","tag-songs","tag-stealing","tag-stop","tag-upcoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}