Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Please Help: Ghana Parliament Steals UK Parliament Website!

In a classic display of our total lack of creativity and disregard for copyright laws in Ghana, the folks re-designing the official website of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana have blatantly copied the UK Parliament’s website.

Take a look: Here’s the “new” Parliament of Ghana website: http://www.parliament.gh. If you visit the website, you’ll observe most links don’t work. Please forgive us… our copycats are busy carrying the images and links all the way from the UK to Ghana!

Ghana Parliament website

And here’s the official website of the UK Parliament: http://www.parliament.uk

UK Parliament website

And finally, here is the previous website of the Parliament of Ghana (from the Way Back Machine:

Old Ghana Parliament website

Thanks to my friend Remy Edmundson for the tip.

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