According to BBC report, Pop singer, Rihanna has won a court ruling in London today against Topshop. The court has earlier banned Topshop from retailing T-shirts bearing her images.
The Pop star sued Topshop's parent company Arcadia for $5m (£3.3m) back in 2013 over the T-shirts, which featured a photo taken during a video shoot in 2011.
The T-shirts released in 2013, bore an image of the singer without her authorisation. Rihanna subsequently won a legal battle against the high street store after the judge agreed that the items fell foul of "passing off" laws, and were likely to cause confusion for customers.
However,the Court of Appeal today in London upheld a ban on the store selling a sleeveless T-shirt featuring a photo of the star without obtaining her permission
In other words, the unauthorised image was damaging to Rihanna's brand.
In his ruling in July 2013, Mr Justice Birss stated that:
some buyers would have been deceived into buying the top because of a "false belief" it had been approved by the singer.it was damaging to her "goodwill" and represented a loss of control over Rihanna's reputation in the "fashion sphere".
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