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Adom Otchere Sends Strong Warning To NDC Lawyers To Desist From Using His Video Without Permission
Host of Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV, Paul Adom-Otchere has expressed unhappiness over the National Democratic Congress’ decision to use an interview he conducted with Peter Mac Manu, the campaign chairman of the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) as part of their evidence in court without giving him credit.
Speaking on his show, he indicated that the NDC’s action infringes on the intellectual property rights of Metro TV and therefore he’ll have to fine them for that.
“We don’t want people to just take our video, go to court and ask the court to show it and you don’t say anything about Metro TV […] but that video doesn’t belong to you. I do not even know why the court did not ask them where did you get the video from; the video is not yours, it’s not NDC TV, it is Metro TV and the interview was not conducted by the editor of NDC TV news, it was conducted by Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV…,” he noted.
“…It’s our work, it’s not your work. You don’t take somebody’s work to the court and say show it in support of my case without recognising that this is somebody’s work. I am totally shocked! This is the altar of law, this is the platform of law. Intellectual property is a cardinal part of today’s law, that intellectual property is so serious…I don’t like that!
“You don’t respect our work and we are disappointed and if you know the work we do here, you will respect it. We respect your work and we expect you to respect our work; it’s very very important. This is bad. NDC lawyers don’t do that again,” he warned.
He further said he’ll be sending a bill to the NDC’s National Communicator, Sammy Gyamfi to pay.
“We’ll send a bill to Sammy Gyamfi; GH¢1,250 and you are going to buy our crew Marwako fried rice and chicken for three consecutive programmes,” he stressed.
