{"id":1238590,"date":"2022-10-30T12:36:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T12:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/30\/we-dont-have-music-publishers-in-ghana-rex-omar\/"},"modified":"2022-10-30T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T12:36:48","slug":"we-dont-have-music-publishers-in-ghana-rex-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/30\/we-dont-have-music-publishers-in-ghana-rex-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t have music publishers in Ghana \u2013 Rex Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Rex-Omar-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Former Board Chairman of the Ghana  Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), has lamented the nonexistence of music publishers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Rex Omar said this at the\u00a0<strong> Roundtable<\/strong>\u00a0organised by Joy Entertainment at the Labadi Beach Hotel on Saturday, October 29, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not have music publishers in Ghana,\u201d said Rex Owusu Marfo popularly known as Rex Omar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1372875907&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a keynote speaker, Mr Rex Owusu Marfo spoke on the topic, \u201cImportance of royalties to the life of the musician\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the highlife artiste, music publishing is a form of royalty, adding that music publishing is a very vital thing in the life of musicians, particularly songwriters. This, he explained is because it has to do with the exploitation of the song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [publishers] are the people who will look for films so that your music can be used as synchronisation or soundtracks \u2026 As long as your publisher is powerful all you need is one song well published.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are good songwriter and you have a good publisher you don\u2019t necessarily have to sing. You can be sitting in Ghana, writing songs and you will have some top American artiste singing your songs and you are here quietly making your money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The thought-leadership forum, themed \u2018 Business and Tourism\u2019, aims at delving deep into, and moving conversations from simply identifying some of the industry\u2019s woes, to sharing ideas and insights that are critical to the growth and progress of the creative industry.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rex Omar has advised prospective musicians to assess the commercial viability of the music industry before venturing into it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/we-dont-have-music-publishers-in-ghana-rex-omar\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Board Chairman of the Ghana Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), has lamented the nonexistence of music publishers in the country. Rex Omar said this at the\u00a0 Roundtable\u00a0organised by Joy Entertainment at the Labadi Beach Hotel on Saturday, October 29, 2022. \u201cWe do not have music publishers in Ghana,\u201d said Rex Owusu Marfo popularly known as Rex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1238592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[342,85,1484,13437,28235,13695],"class_list":["post-1238590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dont","tag-ghana","tag-music","tag-omar","tag-publishers","tag-rex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238590","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=1238590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}