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Pop prima Dua Lipa has taken ineligible action against Samsung, accusing nan electronics elephantine of utilizing her look to waste TVs without compensation aliases permission. As first reported by Variety, nan suit besides claimed Samsung is responsible for copyright and trademark infringement, on pinch "unauthorized commercialized exploitation."
The complaint stems from Samsung utilizing an image of Lipa's look connected cardboard packaging for its TVs last year. The English musician recovered retired astir June 2025 and many times demanded Samsung extremity utilizing her likeness connected nan packaging. However, nan suit claimed that Samsung's consequence was "dismissive and callous," while nan products successful mobility are still being sold to this day. In nan complaint, Lipa's lawyers said that Samsung has profited from utilizing her image, giving nan belief that Lipa has endorsed nan merchandise erstwhile she hasn't. The suit besides quoted posts connected X that suggested immoderate customers would bargain nan TV aft seeing Lipa connected nan box.
"Samsung's infringing behaviour makes a insult of [Lipa's] difficult activity successful establishing a successful marque and has deprived her of nan expertise to power and monetize her assets," nan suit read. On apical of nan alleged ill-gotten monetary gains, nan suit added that Lipa owns nan copyright to nan photograph utilized connected Samsung TV boxes, since it was taken backstage astatine nan Austin City Limits Festival successful 2024. It's not nan first clip that Samsung TVs person been deed pinch ineligible problem either, since Samsung was 1 of 5 TV manufacturers to beryllium sued by Texas' lawyer general, Ken Paxton, successful December for utilizing ad-targeting spyware connected their TVs. We reached retired to Samsung for remark connected nan Lipa suit and will update nan communicative erstwhile we perceive back.
