Man Likely To Sues UTV For Plagiarising His Video On Galamsey

Following the airing of video snippets from the works of documentary filmmaker Edem Srem Sai Afrikanticha, United Television (UTV) is at risk of intellectual property litigation.

Srem Sai, who is well-known for touring the nation and making documentaries about Ghana's natural resources and terrain, claims that the galamsey movies were filmed in 2015.

He claimed to have presented the film to UTV for airing that year, but they refused it, claiming that their own reporters had recorded more footage on galamsey that they had yet to show.

Moving forward to October 2022, UTV aired the documentary they rejected on Prime Time TV without obtaining permission from him, the legit owner of the footage.

Instead of getting the original copies, they picked the footage from the producer's YouTube channel.

Edem Srem Sai is being urged by a number of individuals to sue the TV station and seek damages.

In 2015, when I released a documentary titled “Galamsey: The Other Side” I approached UTV to broadcast and the News editor and Programmes managers then told me that their reporters had done several galamsey videos already and that they could not show mine for free. Today at 10am you showed my galamsey videos UTV, you could have called for the original rather than picking it from my YouTube channel, he said.