{"id":382547,"date":"2017-12-12T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=382547"},"modified":"2017-12-12T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:24:27","slug":"december-royalties-may-delay-ghamro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/december-royalties-may-delay-ghamro\/","title":{"rendered":"December royalties may delay \u2013 GHAMRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Payment of December 2017 season royalties to members of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) may delay in reaching them before the Christmas and New Year festivities, Citi Showbiz has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement signed by the PRO, Prince Tesgah, this may happen due to circumstances beyond their control.<\/p>\n<p>He says the predicament, is borne out of\u00a0the fact that GHAMRO is yet to receive the statutory blank levy payment from Government to enable prompt distribution of royalties\u00a0for this particular season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCognisance must be taken of the fact that in August this year, GHAMRO distributed GHC 1 million, to music right owners\u00a0which was not payment received\u00a0from the blank levy funds from government, but internally generated money\u00a0from collections made by GHAMRO from commercial music users in the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the above reason GHAMRO does not have\u00a0the financial capacity to effectively pay the desired minimum amount as royalties, to the music right owners in Ghana,\u00a0barely 4 months from the last distribution based on collections only.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the above payment of royalties in August , an earlier payment was executed in\u00a0 April, 2017 which was arrears for December, 2016,\u00a0making this December season the third, if GHAMRO is able to meet the \u201cbefore Christmas \u201d deadline as expected by the members.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he noted that the Board and Management of GHAMRO\u00a0assures members that very soon, royalties shall be paid to them immediately upon the receipt of funds from government, since plans to collect cheque from the Finance Ministry is underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>By: Kwame Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payment of December 2017 season royalties to members of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) may delay in reaching them before the Christmas and New Year festivities, Citi Showbiz has learnt. 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