{"id":577604,"date":"2026-05-11T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577604\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:41:08","slug":"dua-lipa-sues-samsung-for-15m-over-use-of-her-image-on-tv-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577604\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m over use of her image on TV boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lawsuit includes allegations of copyright infringement, trademark infringement and misappropriation of Lipa&#8217;s likeness and image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the lawsuit, the image was taken during the singer&#8217;s 2024 Austin City Limits Festival performance and Lipa owns the copyright to the photograph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lipa first became aware of her appearance on Samsung boxes in June 2025, the lawsuit said. Fans on social media also began posting about it, describing it as the &#8220;Dua Lipa TV Box&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lawsuit pointed to two specific Instagram comments, one where a user said they would &#8220;get that TV just because Dua is on it,&#8221; and another that read: &#8220;If you need anything selling just put a picture of Dua Lipa on it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the 30-year-old singer&#8217;s legal team, Samsung apparently ignored &#8220;repeated demands&#8221; to &#8220;cease and desist from infringing on her rights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lipa has a number of commercial partnerships with brands including Puma, Versace, and Yves Saint Laurent, as referenced in the court filing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has also collaborated with brands like Apple, Porsche and Chanel, and more recently became a global ambassador for Nespresso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her most recent album, Radical Optimism, was released in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lawsuit includes allegations of copyright infringement, trademark infringement and misappropriation of Lipa&#8217;s likeness and image. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-577604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}