Rex Omar Pockets 200k

Veteran Musician, Rex Omar has been awarded damages of GHS200,000 and costs of GHS30,000 in his 2015 suit against breweries company, Joy Industries Limited by the High Court in Koforidua.

The damage was awarded against the company for using portions of Rex Omar’s song “Da da di da” in their Joy Dadi Bitters adverts without his permission and in a breach of his copyright.

The company was also ordered to stop any electronic media from playing their commercial with any part of Rex Omar’s work pending the final determination of a copyrights action filed against the company by the musician.

Rex Omar also received GH¢1,000 as cost for filing the application.

Rex Omar sued Joy Industries limited on June 15, 2015 for using his song to advertise their product without his authorization saying it thus infringes on his copyrights.

Reacting to this in a facebook post, Rex mentioned that the act of going to court was not deliberately to extort money from Joy Industries Limited.

”I didn’t go to court against Joy Dadi Bitters for the money. I did it for the principle and the creative arts industry.

You can’t use someone’s sweat and creativity just like that, without his permission, without crediting him and without paying him for it. That is against the law.” part of the post reads.