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Legal practitioner Bobby Banson has outlined circumstances under which artiste lookalikes can be sued by the original acts.<\/p>\n
Bobby Banson made the statement on Joy FM\u2019s Twitter Spaces on Wednesday, April 13, 2023 while talking about the implications of the tribute acts undertaking activities like the main musicians.<\/p>\n
According to him, original artistes can sue the lookalikes with the unfair competition act or the common law of passing off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe burden will be on the original artistes to prove that these lookalikes represented themselves as the A-list artistes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He explained that if the original artistes can prove that the works of the wannabe acts have affected their brands, they can easily sue them.<\/p>\n
Bobby Banson also said that when these lookalike take on the names of the main acts and add \u2018Junior\u2019 to them, they create the impression they have a relationship with the latter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThose that add the Junior make the issue problematic because clearly you see that there is an intention as much as possible to represent themselves as having a relationship with the original artistes,\u201d Bobby Banson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He even went ahead to say that if the lookalike artistes decide to spell their names differently from the original artistes, they can be sued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe law against the passing off or unfair competition is not only in the optics, it\u2019s also in the phonetics. Because when you mention KiDi, I will not know whether you meant Keedi or Qeedi. I will hear KiDi and the phonetics will be confused if it is the KiDi we know or the lookalike,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Lawyer Banson\u2019s claim comes on the back of the recent trend of artiste lookalikes parading on social media in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are lookalikes of celebrities such as Kuami Eugene, KiDi, King Promise, Shatta Wale, Medikal, Mr. Drew, Sarkodie, Black Sherif, among others.<\/p>\n
Some of them are even seen in videos performing songs of the main artistes at events.<\/p>\n
While a lot of people have spoken against the trend, other think there is no cause for alarm and that it is a common practice in Europe and the Americas.<\/p>\n
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