Beyonce at Odds With Triumph
What do Beyonce and Pablo Picasso have in common? Apparently a lawsuit!
Here’s what happened. Beyonce’s video for ‘Video Phone’ has her wearing a unique black and white costume. Meanwhile, German lingerie manufacturer, Triumph hosted a lingerie design contest similar to American Idol. A Bulgarian lingerie designer named Iskren Lozanov was a finalist with his Picasso-inspired black and white lingerie that looks shockingly similar to Beyonce’s costume in the video. The competition rules required that the designer give Triumph the intellectual property rights to his designs. The contest aired the design before the video was launched.
Triumph, upon seeing the video filed a lawsuit against Sony, Beyonce’s record label, in Munich Germany. Both sides argued their inspiration was Picasso. And the result? Judge Peter Guntz recognized the bra designs owned by Triumph as ‘highly original’ and therefore deserved ‘a very broad scope of protection.’ He then ordered that the ‘Video Phone’ video be removed from German television and banned from viewing in Germany.
Prior to the ruling, Triumph extended an olive branch: If Beyonce would agree to be a judge in their next lingerie competition, they would drop the suit. Beyonce and her team rejected the offer. Triumph attorneys responded by saying this was a sign of Beyonce’s arrogance.
So, now going from bad to worse, attorneys for Beyonce and Sony are filing papers to appeal the ruling.
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