The Administrator of the Interim Director of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), Rex Omar, has hinted that they are as yet commanded to gather music royalties regardless of the non-reestablishment of their permit.
He expressed this during a press conference by GHAMRO at the GNAT Corridor in Accra on Thursday, June 1, 2023.
"The permit gives us the command to work as an aggregate administration association which manages other unfamiliar music CMOs. We will in any case gather [the royalties] by regulation until we get our permit. For that reason we say we can't disseminate. Since gathering is a certain something, disseminating is another," he added.
He offered this expression in the wake of declaring that GHAMRO's working permit has been kept by the Principal legal officer through the Copyright office.
"GHAMRO can not appropriate any assortment as it can't follow the assortment command until the permit is recharged," he said in his location.
Rex additionally made sense of that GHAMRO had satisfied all the restoration conditions under Segments 24 of the Copyright Administrative Instrument.
"In 2010, GHAMRO presented all the imperative documentation for the restoration of its permit in June, 2022. This is against a mission from striking people like Lady Akosua Adjepong that the association declaration has not been restored and that Clients ought to stop installments for the utilization of safeguarded music which is managed under regulation," he expressed.
That regardless, the Copyright office through a letter dated 17TH May, 2023 has mentioned that the association ought to consent to suspend its cases in court, re-take on Prof. Sutherland's Report and to readmit the broke down Political decision Panel to coordinate new races.
Rex Omar added that "tragically after the Principal legal officer's Office Guide has nearly been finished except for the apped case yet to be cleared, GHAMRO is being requested to return to begin the suggestion from the Efua Sutherland Board."
Talking uninvolved of the public interview with Joy Entertainment, Rex guaranteed GHAMRO individuals that the initiative has composed a request to the Principal legal officer to enlist their disappointment at the mandate.
"As we got the letter from the copyright office, we have likewise addressed their necessities individually. We accept that their prerequisite doesn't stand any kind of test and we accept that the law's expectation's of us to do to keep on working as a CMO has been finished. It is exactly the same thing we did that our permit was reestablished beforehand. The law has not been changed so we don't have the foggiest idea why.
Assuming you take a gander at the circumstances they are setting for us before we get our permit reestablished, they depend on someone's tact not the law," he noted.
The veteran highlife performer criticized the non-recharging of their permit is annihilating the association.
He has, accordingly, approached the Principal legal officer to restore GHAMRO's permit so they can continue with their activities.