Rihanna being sued over ‘S+M’ video again
June 25th, 2011 - 3:06 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 25 (IANS) Singer Rihanna is being sued by a photographer again over her “S+M” video, which he claims she stole from his work.
The Barbadian singer was first handed a lawsuit over the raunchy video by fashion photographer David LaChappelle who alleged “the music video is directly derived from and substantially similar to the LaChapelle works”.
Now a second photographer, Paris-based photographer Philipp Paulus, has joined him with a second copyright infringement suit, saying his images were recreated without permission for “S+M” bondage themed video, femalefirst.co.uk reported.
“Why a worldwide celebrity is not able to afford a creative director, who creates individual concepts and stagings, is incomprehensible to me. To create new things within the creative cosmos, you can only expect this to come from a real genius,” Paulus said.
“However, in this case there is no real genius who created their own work; instead they stole ideas from a creative talent,” he added.
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