{"id":1212723,"date":"2022-09-28T16:08:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/sarkodie-supports-kirani-ayat-against-the-government\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:08:47","slug":"sarkodie-supports-kirani-ayat-against-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/sarkodie-supports-kirani-ayat-against-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkodie supports Kirani Ayat against the government \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-decorated-rapper-sarkodie-has-thrown-his-weight-behind-ghanaian-artist-kirani-ayat-for-taking-on-the-government-over-a-copyright-breach\">Decorated rapper Sarkodie has thrown his weight behind Ghanaian artist Kirani Ayat for taking on the government over a copyright breach. <\/h2>\n<p>A few hours ago, Kirani Ayat, called out the Tourism Ministry for using excerpts of his Guda music video\u00a0to support the #VisitGhana2022 agenda without his consent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: I regret voting for Nana Addo \u2013 Prophet Kumchahca says\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to him, he is expecting to be paid royalties due him because he didn\u2019t give the green light for his content to be used by the Government of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>He took to his Twitter a few hours ago and tweeted, \u201cIt took blood, sweat, time, efforts, and lots of dollars to make GUDA happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Earlier, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo posted a video on his Twitter timeline, promoting the #VisitGhana2022 agenda to the world.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the\u00a0video\u00a0went viral on Twitter, Kirani Ayat called out the government for using his works without his permission.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter to vent his anger, he tweeted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The president of Ghana has used my video \u2018GUDA\u2019 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\u2019s in an ad and no one reached out to me for permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoever worked on this video should\u2019ve reached out to the rightful content owners before proceeding. I spent my all in making GUDA possible, I\u2019m sure you were paid for this job, where is my cut<em>?<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: I\u2019ve never had an executive producer for 20 years \u2013 Piesie Esther\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Sarkodie tweeted, \u201cGuess this quote is for the people cos if there\u2019s anybody who knows this, I\u2019m here ! People might freak out if they knew how much it takes to achieve that 2 to 3 minutes visual\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Guess this quote is for the people \ud83d\ude0a cos if there\u2019s anybody who knows this, I\u2019m here ! People might freak out if they knew how much it takes to achieve that 2 to 3 minutes visual https:\/\/t.co\/aYB0Pgz62i<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarkodie (@sarkodie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarkodie\/status\/1575125967571386368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>source: www.ghbase.com<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; 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\u00a0to support the #VisitGhana2022 agenda without his consent. 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