Speaking in an exclusive interview with NEWS-ONE, Sandra Ankobiah opened her arms to handling cases pertaining to entertainment and not just other cases. “Why not, I will handle entertainment cases,” she said and promised not to abandon the entertainment industry, especially her Fashion 101, a TV Magazine show.
“There is Entertainment Law, and it encompasses all of the legal problems and issues most commonly faced by a variety of related industries, including film, television, radio, music recording, publishing, theater, and sports. The areas of law most frequently associated with this field are intellectual property, agency, antitrust, contracts, and labor and employment.
And although I specialized in International and Commercial Law, I studied most of the courses under Entertainment Law during my LLB and LLM. Courses such as Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and Contract and fortunately, Entertainment Law are predominantly Contract and Intellectual Property based.
“My aim now is to provide legal services to the entertainment industry- services such as Contract Drafting, Negotiation and Mediation, and of course Litigation, if the need arises.
“I believe the reason why Entertainment Law is not big in this country is due to the fact that our industry is not big. It’s a very young industry which doesn’t make use of legal services/lawyers.
I have seen and heard of actors/artistes, etc. who enter into agreements/deals without any form of contracts and later have problems when breaches occur.
The industry is growing and I would like to grow with it,” she added.The beautiful lady who is also a model was among some 39 lawyers who were inducted into the Ghana bar by Her Ladyship Chief Justice Georgina Wood at a meeting of the General Legal Council in Accra on Friday April 12.
Source: NewsOne
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