Nigerian actress, Iyabo Ojo, has called out a Ghanaian TV station for pirating her movie less than 24 hours after it was released.
This came 21 hours after the actress released the final episode of her movie, ‘The Memory of You’.
Newsunplug reports that the actress who released the film on Friday at 5pm, called out NETV for airing the movie without her permission or license.
She called on Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama to revoke or suspend the licence of the station.
In an Instagram post on Saturday afternoon, the actress wrote, “My movie THE MEMORY OF YOU 1&2 is being aired on TV channels in Ghana without my permission. No call. No license. No payment. Just pure theft. To NETV and every other station doing this: You cannot build your channel on the backs of filmmakers and expect us to keep quiet.
“To His Excellency the President of Ghana @officialjdmahama National Film Authority @nationalfilmauthority and the *Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture in Ghana We are begging you to act. There are laws in place – the Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690). Enforce them.
@nationalfilmauthority once said that they’ve already warned that stations airing unauthorized content risk license suspension or revocation. Now is the time to act on that warning. We Filmmakers pour our lives, money, and years into this craft. Piracy kills creativity, kills jobs, and kills investment. We are not asking for favors. We are demanding what is rightfully ours: RESPECT and PROTECTION for our intellectual property. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.”
Newsunplug reports that this came a week after the Ghana National Film Authority, NFA, announced plans to crack down on television stations broadcasting Nigerian films without authorisation.