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AAGM: Banderole, Hologram, Gamugram And Copyright Blues.

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(From Ghanaian Chronicle: AAGM)

Byline: Kodzo Ahiata Jr

The issue of payment of mechanical rights royalty and means to collect it for onward payment to the copyright owner or composer has been in the news recently with the introduction of new privately owned record identification label called gamugram owned by Gamugram Trust Ghana Ltd. This is not the first time efforts have been made to identify and pay right owners.

It started in the 1960s with the formation of the Copyright Protection Society, COPS, by late E.K. Dadson, Mr. Mason and Essilfie-Bondzie. Then vinyl was in vogue and the idea came up to have a special stamp affixed on the record ...

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