No, she isn't being sued by David Lachapelle AGAIN, this time she is being sued by Phillip Paulus after the imagery in her controversial video for 'S&M' 'exploited' some of the shots from his back collection dating back to August 2010 at the earliest.
The first time Rihanna was sued over the contends of the 'S&M' video was just a couple of months ago (February me thinks...) when David Lachapelle sued RiRI for stealing the entire video idea and its imagery from HIS back collection and portfolio, and rightfully so. It was obvious at the time that the images were 'liberated' from Lachapelles work, but that's not the story here, this is about Paulus and RiRi's beef.
Paulus highlighted one part in particular, a clip of Rihanna strung up behind a wall of transparent plastic - as being directly lifted from one of his pieces, E! Online states in their update on the story. Here is Paulus's official statement about the video
"Why a worldwide celebrity is not able to afford a creative director, who creates individual concepts and stagings, is incomprehensible to me. To create new things within the creative cosmos, you can only expect this to come from a real genius, there is no doubt about that. However, in this case there is no real genius who created their own work; instead they stole ideas from a creative talent. Furthermore, every other creative professional should realise how supremely embarrassing it is to copy the work of colleagues from the artistic world and then to be praised for it."
Paulus's lawyer later added that
"Why a worldwide celebrity is not able to afford a creative director, who creates individual concepts and stagings, is incomprehensible to me. To create new things within the creative cosmos, you can only expect this to come from a real genius, there is no doubt about that. However, in this case there is no real genius who created their own work; instead they stole ideas from a creative talent. Furthermore, every other creative professional should realise how supremely embarrassing it is to copy the work of colleagues from the artistic world and then to be praised for it."
Paulus's lawyer later added that
"For legitimate reasons the use of copying Paulus's work over a million times requires an agreement that protects the copyright and the achievements and creations of our client which has never been given by our client, neither to the artist Rihanna nor to her label Universal Music. According to this, the copyright laws of our client has been infringed and the worldwide million-wise exploitation of the video 'S&M' is unlawful... [and] Paulus will take legal action against Rihanna."
Damn sis, where i come from them's fighting words and if one takes it upon themselves to google Paulus's collection, i think its safe to assume that when this goes to court, it will be a wonderful day for a scalping.
'Hew Da Fawk Want Waaar' has NEVER seemed to appropriate, until now anyway. So, what do y'all think about this whole shizznit about the 'S&M' video. Personally, i find the stealing allegations more shocking that the Video itself, but that's just me #shade
leave your thoughts and comments on this whole thievery kerfuffle below...
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