Thursday, 22 January 2015

Rihanna wins court case against Topshop over selling T-shirt with her image

                                                      Rihanna performs in Perth, Australia, on Tuesday                       

An appeal court judge upheld a ban on  Topshop selling a sleeveless top bearing the Rihanna's image without her permission.

Rihanna’s lawyers had argued that the image was from an unauthorised photograph taken while the star was filming a video in Northern Ireland for one of her singles in 2011 and Topshop should remain banned from exploiting it.

The judges- Lord Justice Richards, Lord Justice Kitchin and Lord Justice Underhill - agreed that a large number of the 26-year-old’s fans were likely to be led into the falsely believing that she had authorised the top to carry her image.

The three judges unanimously dismissed the Topshop appeal, making it a landmark case. Topshop is also to pay Rihanna's legal fees and her lawyers charged a whopping one million pounds
See a picture of the T-shirt after this:



Controversial: Topshop had sold the garment - which bore an image of her taken from a photograph - between March and August 2012
The conroversial T-shirt


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