Popstar Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million, claiming the company used her image to sell televisions.
The lawsuit points to the cardboard television packaging, which features a Samsung television with Lipa’s face on the screen. The English singer said the South Korean electronics company did not have permission to feature her image.
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The complaint was filed on May 8 in U.S. District Court for Central California, according toThe New York Times.Her lawyers claimed that the singer noticed the packaging last year and had her team file a cease and desist that was apparently ignored. The lawsuit alleges Samsung benefits “by capitalizing on the implied (false) association with Ms. Lipa as a sponsor of Samsung’s mass-marketed television sets.”
The “Levitating” singer is suing the company for “copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and violation of her right of publicity in order to obtain redress for the massive, continuing, unauthorized commercial exploitation of her valuable image and likeness by Samsung on cardboard television boxes,” the filing reads, according toCNN.
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The suit also claimed that the photo used is owned by the three-time Grammy winner and was taken backstage at Austin City Limits in 2024, the annual music festival that takes place in the Texas town.
KTLA 5 has reached out to Samsung for a statement on the lawsuit and did not hear back by the time this article was published.
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