GN Bank People’s Choice Awards now known as GN Bank Awards

The maiden edition of the People’s Choice Awards
is going through many phases indeed.
From changing the name from People’s Choice
Awards to GN Bank People’s Choice Awards, there
is a new title for the awards scheme to comply with
court directive.
The new name for the awards is GN Bank Awards
– honouring the People’s Choice, GhanaGist.Com
can report. The organizers have changed the name
because of a legal controversy revolving around the
name of program.
According to the Edwin Kweku Edinkrah, CEO of
Spyder Lee Entertainment in a press statement, his
outfit had successfully and legally registered
People’s Choice Awards as a business at the
Registrar General’s Department and subsequently
registered GN Bank People’s Choice Awards as a
trademark yet had been embroiled in a legal tussle
with Evolution International over the ownership of
the name People’s Choice Awards.
He said in April 2014, Spyder Lee Entertainment in a
two week media campaign massively publicized the
introduction of the awards and went on to launch
the awards in November 2014.
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Surprisingly, weeks after the launch event, Spyder
Lee Entertainment was notified of the registration of
People’s Choice Awards by Evolution International
and a request to desist from the use of the name
People’s Choice Awards which resulted in a law
suit.
On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at the Fast Track
High Court, the presiding judge, Justice Anthony
Yeboah placed in injunction restraining both Spyder
Lee Entertainment and Evolution International from
using the name ‘People’s Choice Awards’ until the
case is settled between both parties.
GN Bank Awards – Honouring the People’s Choice
is an annual multi sector awards scheme to
celebrate practitioners within the Ghanaian showbiz
industry who have contributed to the development
of the industry.
The maiden GN Bank Awards billed for March 21,
2015 at the Accra Conference Centre.