Rihanna has won her legal battle against Topshop over the retailer using her image.
In the U.K., celebrities do not own the rights to images of themselves but companies cannot use an image without consent. The 26-year-old’s lawyers claimed that the photo was taken illegally in 2011 in Northern Ireland on the set of her We Found Love music video.
In 2013, the pop star sued Arcadia, Topshop’s parent company, for $5 million and the initial ruling claimed that consumers might have been deceived into buying the sleeveless tank because of an implicit “false belief” it had been permitted by Rihanna. The ruling judge also said that the unlicensed image use also damaged her “goodwill” and reputation in the “fashion sphere.”
Good for her.
