Dua Lipa has sued Samsung over its use of her picture on cardboard packaging for a few of its televisions, which the singer says she didn’t consent to. Lipa is looking for “a minimum of $15 million” in damages for “copyright infringement, trademark infringement and misappropriation of Plaintiff’s likeness and picture.”
In a grievance filed on Could 8 in america District Court docket for California’s Central District and seen by Pitchfork, Lipa alleges that Samsung prominently featured {a photograph} of her face on containers for numerous tv fashions, which have been bought in shops throughout america. In keeping with the go well with, Samsung used the picture, which was taken backstage at Austin Metropolis Limits in 2024 and which Lipa owns the copyright on, with out her data or consent. Pitchfork has reached out to Lipa’s attorneys and representatives for Samsung for remark.
Per the submitting, Lipa turned conscious of the state of affairs in June 2025, after social media customers started referring to a “Dua Lipa TV Field.” The lawsuit particularly factors out two Instagram feedback, one the place a consumer stated they might “get that TV simply because Dua is on it,” and one other that learn: “When you want something promoting simply put an image of Dua Lipa on it.” “Samsung’s copying and distribution of the DL Picture constitutes willful copyright and trademark infringement, and a violation of Ms. Lipa’s proper of publicity, designed to improperly capitalize on Ms. Lipa’s hard-earned success to advertise and promote Samsung’s merchandise,” the go well with states.
Lipa’s lawsuit additionally claims that Samsung refused to adjust to “repeated calls for” from the artist to take the packaging off the market. The grievance states that she first reached out with a stop and desist request final 12 months, and that Samsung’s response was “dismissive and callous.” “Samsung’s vanity in refusing to cease its infringement confirms its aware disregard of Ms. Lipa’s mental property and private identification rights,” the go well with notes, additional accusing the corporate of “capitalizing on the implied (false) affiliation with Ms. Lipa as a sponsor of Samsung’s mass-marketed tv units within the containers on which she is prominently featured.”
Lipa shared her most up-to-date album, Radical Optimism, in 2024. In March, it was introduced that she would seem in a forthcoming A24 comedy directed by Molly Gordon, Peaked, which will even star Connor Storrie, Emma Mackey, Laura Dern, Alex Consani, and extra.