Parts of the speech also seem to have been lifted from a speech by another US president John F. Kennedy made in 1961.
On January 20, 1961 President J. F. Kennedy during his inaugural address said, “if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it can’t save the few who are rich”.
Akufo-Addo in his inaugural speech said the same thing on Saturday. Watch below... embed code....
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DeleteI don't understand why people criticise over speech plagiariam. What is wrong with adopting somebody's speech that you like? For example, i can love a quote from Linda's video of inspiration and decide to use it in a gathering. It simply shows you like what the person said that's why you repeated it. Social media people are jobless. As long as the speech was not a book that was bought with money, it doesnt matter if you adopt it. People should get a life outside social media. Stmcheew
ReplyDeleteYou have to quote your source not spit it out like it's your inspired word
DeleteIf you must use someone's intellectual property, you must acknowledge them at the point of use!!!
DeleteYou have to give credit to your source because it is an intellectual property! You can say things like according to so so and so or so so and so said and I quote!!! Failure to do that is straight out plagiarism! Huge offense in western world and in fact among educated folks!
DeleteAnything wrong with that? If that is his message to the ghanians and he ready to go by the word so be it. We awaiting to hear him saying "quoting from JF Kennedy inauguration speech....." My dear it is not plaigarism it is borrowed words.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mr AG, the most important thing is his readiness to go his words. This is not plagiarism as u rightly put it.
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ReplyDeleteWhat about that? Does anyone have a monopoly of words? ppl always making a mountain out of a molehill.
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Copyright laws allow people to use other persons work 70 years after their death without quoting them.
ReplyDeleteThe statement was first used by Woodrow Wilson who died over 70year now. Bush used it in 2001 without crediting him, so it is not wrong for president Nana Adu to use without a credit . by law it is not plagiarism
Stop ridiculing yourself...the plagiarism here wasn't that of Woodraw that of Clinton and JF Kennedy inaugural speech were captured in Nana Addo's speech so those one are also 70 years older??stop trying to defend as the one u r trying to defend has seen it as a grievous mistake and apologised through prez secretary who has taken the blame
DeleteIt's stupidity if u cant coin ur words. If u want to use someone's words, then credit the person. I mean Africans dont think. Why cant those speech writers sit down and think. If u must borrow words, then modify it, if u wont credit the original source.
ReplyDeleteChoi! All he had to do was preface the "borrowed" parts with something along the lines of "in the words of....", or "as rightfully expressed by...", and there would've been no harm no foul. To literally parrot out someone else's inspirational statements at an occasion such as an inauguration, without attributing the statements to the original speaker, comes across as lazy, lacking creativity and lacking inspiration. @ogodomigodo.
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Does it mean , Ghanaians do not learn from Nigerian's mistakes? I tire oo.
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