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The image alleged to have been used on the TV boxes is titled &#8220;Dua Lipa &#8211; Backstage at Austin City Limits, 2024,&#8221; and Lipa is the owner of all rights, title and interest in the image, the lawsuit said. The suit was filed on Friday in the California federal court.<br \/>Besides copyright and trademark infringement, Lipa has accused Samsung Electronics of breaching publicity rights.<br \/>Samsung Electronics denied allegations of intentional misuse of the image, which it said was provided by a third-party partner that created the content involving Lipa for Samsung&#8217;s free streaming service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British pop star Dua Lipa has filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics seeking at least $15 million in damages, accusing the South Korean tech giant of using her image without permission to market its television sets.The lawsuit alleges that Samsung featured a copyrighted image of the pop star on the front of cardboard boxes containing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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