Legal Opinion
LaChapelle v. Fenty
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 20, 2011No. 11 Civ. 945(SAS)PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
David LaChapelle brings this action against Robyn Rihanna Fenty (“Rihanna”), Island Def Jam Music Group (“Def Jam”), Melina Matsoukas, and Black Dog Films, Inc. (“Black Dog”), for copyright and trade dress infringement under federal law, and unfair competition and unjust enrichment under New York common law, relating to defendants’ music video “S & M” (“the Video”) created for Rihanna’s song of the same name. LaChapelle alleges that the defendants unlawfully used protected expressions from eight of his photographs (“the…
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