Government urged to endorse copyright bill

Kumasi November 22, GNA - Mr. Eliot Agyare, the President of the Ghana Publishers Association, has appealed to the President to give assent to the Copyright Bill which had already been approved by parliament.

He said the copyright law has to come into force to protect authors, artists and owners of intellectual properties from piracy that had spiralled and threatening the survival of the arts and music industry.

Mr. Agyare said this in Kumasi on Monday when he interacted with students of the Department of Publishing of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

He lauded the government for instituting the National Book Policy and said assenting to the copyright law to replace the old one that is not strong enough to stop piracy would go a long way to revamp the art, music and publishing industry. 23 Nov 06