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an individual who is a citizen of, or is domiciled or resident in, Ghana or any country specified in the Schedule to this Act, or a body corporate which was incorporated under the laws of Ghana or any such country. (2) The term of copyright conferred by this section shall be calculated according to the following table—

About GhaLII GhaLII is a non-profit organisation based in Accra that aims to source and publish digitally accessible to the general public parliamentary, legislative and judicial information from Ghana and ECOWAS. GhaLII's objectives include promotion of access to legal information from Ghana as a fundamental part of the rule of law.

GHANA COPYRIGHT OFFICE, P.M.B. MINISTRIES, ACCRA, GHANA. F TRANSFER (if the copyright claimants) named above are different from the author give a brief statement of how the claimant obtained ownership of the copyright) REF CS.

This paper considers how the Ghanaian courts have, over the years, dealt with copyright law cases in Ghana. It argues that though this area of law is at its inception stage in Ghana, its development depends, to a large extent, on the attitude of the

Ghana - Year of Version: 2005 - Assented: May 17, 2004 - Main IP Laws - IP Regulatory Body

In the absence of any law or contract to the contrary, the provisions of section 28 shall not imply a consent to licence other broadcasters to transmit the performance,

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Ghana's copyright act.

The document summarizes the history and development of copyright law in Ghana. It discusses: 1) Issues with previous copyright laws from 1961 and 1985, which failed to adequately protect author's rights and allow for piracy.

Section 14—Duration of copyright in anonymous works Where a work is published anonymously or under a pseudonym, the rights of the author referred to in section 5 are protected until the expiration of seventy years from the date on which the work was either made, first made available to the public, or first published, whichever date is the later, but if the identity of the author is known or ...

The current copyright laws in Ghana came to effect after the previous one underwent metamorphosis. The changes aimed to combat numerous complains which came from researchers, producers and inventor for lack of defined laws to effectively protect the infringement of their intellectual property rights.

INTRODUCTION The use and reproduction of information resources protected by copyright laws is much to be desired in the age of technology explosion. Students, lecturers, librarians and other information users and creators have access to information resources from remote areas due to the availability of the Internet. Tertiary institutions in Ghana including the Ghana Institute of Journalism ...

This paper considers how the Ghanaian courts h ave, over the years, dealt with c opyright law cases in Ghana. It

Literature is almost silent on this area of law. In this paper, we take a look at how the courts are developing or have served to develop copyright law in Ghana. Using the interpretivist paradigm mainly through the analysis of decided cases, this paper explores the overall contribution of the Ghanaian courts to Intellectual Property Law.

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Rights-holders who elect to license or assign their copyright are recommended to engage local counsel familiar with copyright law in Ghana and to consider carefully the rights they license or assign. A license to do an act that falls within copyright may be oral, written or inferred from conduct. An assignment of copyright must be made in writing.

The copyright law affords protection to a variety of work and grants protection to holders to their works and defines the duration of that copyright protection. In Sections 38 to 58 we can find the general provisions of copyright law in Ghana.

This study delves into the complexities of music copyright infringement in Ghana and highlights the importance of intellectual property rights protection in the music industry. The findings show that copyright infringement is a widespread problem in Ghana, and stakeholders must collaborate to develop effective strategies to combat it.

The COPYRIGHT ACT 2005 outlines the eligibility criteria for copyright protection.