{"id":1213801,"date":"2022-09-30T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/trigmatic-wades-into-kirani-gta-copyright-brouhaha\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:37:45","slug":"trigmatic-wades-into-kirani-gta-copyright-brouhaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/trigmatic-wades-into-kirani-gta-copyright-brouhaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigmatic wades into Kirani-GTA copyright brouhaha \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-ghanaian-musician-and-songwriter-trigmatic-has-waded-into-the-feud-between-artist-kirani-ayat-and-ghana-tourism-authority-over-a-copyright-breach\">Ghanaian musician and songwriter Trigmatic has waded into the feud between artist Kirani Ayat and Ghana Tourism Authority over a copyright breach. <\/h2>\n<p>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\u00a0to support the #VisitGhana2022 agenda without his consent. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Sarkodie opens up about his daily struggle<\/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>In his tweet\u2026<\/p>\n<p><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><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/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>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. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: I\u2019m depressed \u2013 Wife of Dr. UN, Joyce Mensah says<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of what the real story is, I expect to see creatives stand behind<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KiraniAYAT\">@KiraniAYAT<\/a> 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\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur crafts will continually be taken for granted. It\u2019s one person today and could be you tomorrow. Stop exploiting talents and do the needful.\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\">Our crafts will continually be taken for granted. It\u2019s one person today and could be you tomorrow. Stop exploiting talents and do the needful.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TRIGMATIC (@trigmaticrocks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trigmaticrocks\/status\/1575380594099458048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 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<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; 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\u00a0to support the #VisitGhana2022 agenda without his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2181,16577,26626,26627,3859],"class_list":["post-1213801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-brouhaha","tag-copyright","tag-kiranigta","tag-trigmatic","tag-wades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213801","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=1213801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}