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:
| The conroversial T-shirt |
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