Dua Lipa has filed a $15 million suit against South Korean tech giant Samsung. Lipa claims that the company used her image on its product packaging without her prior authorization.<\/p>\n
According to Variety<\/a>, the singer filed the lawsuit on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The complaint alleges that Samsung has placed the picture of Lipa in action on stage at the Austin City Limits Festival on TV packaging since last year.<\/p>\n Lipa claims that when she discovered this, she contacted the company to ask them to take the picture down, but Samsung responded dismissively and rejected her request.<\/p>\n As stated in the complaint, \u201cMs. Lipa\u2019s face was prominently used for a mass marketing campaign for a consumer product without her knowledge, without consideration, and as to which she had no say, control, or input whatsoever.\u201d Moreover, the filing states that Lipa did not grant permission for such an act and would not have done so.<\/p>\n The lawsuit claims that Samsung has been using the picture for profit, despite owning its copyright. To demonstrate the commercial impact of the image, Samsung is accused of profiting from Lipa\u2019s endorsement, as evidenced by several tweets on the social media platform X. In one of those, a person posted, \u201cI wasn\u2019t even planning on buying a TV, but I saw the box, so I decided to get it.\u201d<\/p>\n Another tweet said that Lipa\u2019s picture was enough of a reason for them to purchase the product. According to the complaint, Ms. Lipa has an established \u201cpremium brand\u201d and thus uses her face only with select companies, making Samsung\u2019s move particularly damaging.<\/p>\n Samsung\u2019s use of the singer\u2019s face constitutes copyright infringement, a violation of California\u2019s right-of-publicity statute, a Lanham Act claim, and trademark infringement.<\/p>\n The post Dua Lipa Sues Samsung for $15 Million After Company Refuses to Remove Her Photo From TV Boxes<\/a> appeared first on Where Is The Buzz | Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive Interviews & More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa has filed a $15 million suit against South Korean tech giant Samsung. Lipa claims that the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[104126,124141,2515,171,2161,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-786493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-austin-city-limits-festival","9":"tag-central-district-of-california","10":"tag-dua-lipa","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-samsung","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116550245282414616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}