Rihanna has won her High Court legal battle against fashion chain Topshop over T-shirts bearing her image. The singer sued the high-street store's parent company Arcadia for £3.3million over the T-shirts, which featured a photo taken of the star during a video shoot in Northern Ireland in 2011.
Topshop had disputed the claim, but Mr Justice Birss today ruled in favour of the singer in the High Court after a hearing in London. He said Topshop's sale of a Rihanna T-shirt had been anact of "passing off", and that a "substantial number" of customers were likely to have bought the T-shirt of a"false belief" that it had been authorised by the singer.
The judge added that was damaging to her "goodwill"and represented a loss of control of her reputation in the fashion sphere.He said it was for the singer not Topshop to choose what garments the public thought had her endorsement.
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