Rihanna just can’t catch a break with “S&M,” can she? First she was sued in February by one photographer, David LaChappelle, over a supposed ripoff. Then she became the world’s scapegoat, corrupting America with her flimsy bondage metaphors. And now another photographer is suing her for–well, pretty much the same thing.
The deal: Photog Philipp Paulus is accusing Rihanna of ripping off his Paperworld set, the image in question visible right in the Vimeo preview or all over his site. The offending details: big dress, hands pressed against plastic wrap, black X’s. Yeah, so. Big dresses have a storied music-video fashion history. It isn’t as if plastic wrap, in keeping with “S&M”‘s theme, is a fetish object or anything (uh, just take our word for it and please don’t do any research). And about the black X’s… OK, we’ve got nothing.
Radar Online has the complaint press release, which is interesting in itself–it kind of calls Rihanna a genius! It asks Rihanna to consider using a creative director and/or company, which guarantees nothing! Paulus is only 19! Oh, and it features the fantastically repurposable sentence “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.” The law might be sorting this one out, but we’d never let that slide.
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