Dua Lipa sued Samsung Electronics on Friday (Could 8), accusing the patron electronics big of utilizing her photograph on TV packaging with out her permission or any fee, and is looking for no less than $15 million in damages.
The grievance, filed within the US District Court docket for the Central District of California, which you’ll learn right here, alleges that Samsung used a copyrighted picture of Lipa on the cardboard containers of TVs it offered throughout the US.
Lipa says she owns the copyright to the photograph, which is registered with the US Copyright Workplace below Copyright Registration No. VA 2-479-685. The picture is titled “Dua Lipa – Backstage at Austin Metropolis Limits, 2024.”
Lipa found the unauthorized use of the picture in June 2025 and instantly despatched a cease-and-desist demand to Samsung, in accordance with the lawsuit. Nonetheless, her attorneys wrote: “Samsung has repeatedly refused to take action, and as a substitute has continued to willfully, deliberately, and purposefully infringe on Ms. Lipa’s rights for its monetary profit, sustaining on the market the Infringing Merchandise bearing the DL Picture.”
“Samsung’s response has been dismissive and callous, and the Infringing Merchandise stay available on the market to this present day, nonetheless being offered all through the nation in ongoing acts of willful infringement,” the grievance learn.
Lipa’s attorneys added that the artist’s face was “prominently used for a mass advertising and marketing marketing campaign for a client product with out her information, with out consideration, and as to which she had no say, management, or enter in any respect.”
The lawsuit claims that the cardboard containers bearing Lipa’s picture “induced potential shoppers to purchase them as a result of it featured Ms. Lipa.” One fan allegedly famous: “I wasn’t even planning on shopping for a television however I noticed the field so I made a decision to get it.”
One other social media consumer wrote that they’d “get that television simply because Dua is on it,” whereas one other famous: “in the event you want something promoting simply put an image of Dua Lipa on it,” in accordance with the lawsuit.
The lawsuit additionally described Samsung’s “infringing conduct” as “a mockery of [Lipa’s] exhausting work in establishing a profitable model,” including that it has disadvantaged her of the power to regulate and monetize her property.
Lipa has received three Grammy Awards and has held model ambassador agreements with Puma, YSL Magnificence, Bvlgari, and Nespresso, amongst others. Her attorneys described her as “extremely selective” in her business partnerships.
Lipa’s authorized crew argued that Samsung has “profited, and continues to revenue, immensely” from using Lipa’s picture.
“On info and perception, a good portion of the televisions offered by Samsung in the US in 2025 and so far bear the DL Picture on their containers, using which has contributed in no insignificant strategy to the big income generated for Samsung by the gross sales of those televisions,” the grievance added.
The claims span copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, false endorsement and trademark infringement below the Lanham Act, trademark infringement, violation of proper of publicity below California Civil Code, and extra.
The lawsuit names each Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and its South Korean mother or father firm Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Lipa is demanding a jury trial and is looking for a everlasting injunction prohibiting Samsung from utilizing the artist’s copyright, trademark and publicity rights, an award of precise damages of no less than $15 million, an award of punitive damages and attorneys’ charges and prices.
Music Enterprise Worldwide
