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Regulatory Models For Copyright Protection Of Online Musical Works: Should Ghana Follow The Eu Approach?, Kow Abekah-Wonkyi

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In the era of digitization and internet, the relevance of appropriate copyright laws that would safeguard the rights and interests of musicians and their works on internet platforms cannot be overemphasized, given the tendency for such platforms to facilitate the unauthorized access of copyrighted contents.

In Ghana, the pervasive issues around music copyright and the internet as characterized by unlicensed access to copyrighted works on internet and digital platforms, have been subjected to some intense conversations that border on the potency of the laws, as well as the effectiveness of the various mandated state institutions in responding to such issues. …