A Ghanaian lawyer has spoken out about the current influx of celebrity impersonators in the entertainment industry.
Lawyer Bobby Banson revealed on Joy Showbiz A to Z that these men, who pose as musicians because they resemble some of Ghana’s A-list celebrities, can be sued.
He went on to say that the law can deal with these men who pose as the artists they resemble if the artists can show that they have lost money or that their reputations are being ruined as a result of them.
Social media has been flooded with videos of Medikal, Black Sherif, King Promise, Mr Drew, Kuami Eugene, and Fameye lookalikes.
These men who resemble these musicians have revealed that they intend to work full-time as impersonators of the musicians.
However, lawyer Banson maintained that these people can be sued, especially if they perform the artists’ music and accept money in their names.
“I think you can look at the unfair competition act that allows somebody to sue another person when the other is taking advantage of his reputation to make undue economic gains. An artiste can use the common law of passing off to make the argument that these so-called lookalikes are taking advantage of his reputation and intellectual property to deceive his followers and because of that, he has lost X or Y amount of money” he added.
