Republication Liability Undermines Media Business Models

Section 47.3 states it is "immaterial" whether information was already publicly known or resulted from the subject's own conduct, meaning businesses face liability for republishing publicly available information without ongoing consent. This creates impossible compliance burdens for news aggregators, content curators, archives, and research firms that rely on publicly available information. Combined with the perpetual consent revocation right, businesses cannot maintain historical content or databases without continuous consent verification—making standard media and research business models legally unviable and placing Ghanaian businesses at a structural competitive disadvantage against international platforms not subject to these restrictions.