The Role of Stakeholder Collaboration in Online Copyright Enforcement: A Case Study of Ghana’s Creative Industry

The purpose of this article is to explore the perceptions and roles of various stakeholders regarding the challenges of enforcing copyright protection online within the Ghanaian creative industry, and how they can collaborate effectively to improve enforcement mechanisms. Thus, this article concludes that stakeholders’ perspectives are critical for understanding how they may be able to increase the enforcement efforts they lead. In this qualitative study, key stakeholders from the government, private sector, copyright offices, creative industry associations, academics, and the public were interviewed, and data analysed extensively, which reveals several important parameters relevant to enforcement of copyright in Ghana, including stakeholder collaboration and interdepartmental coordination, public awareness, legal framework, resource mobilisation, and access to enforcement mechanisms, to protect creators’ rights and promote the sustainability of the creative industry and the economic development of Ghana.