Last week I brought you the story about photographer David LaChapelle becoming quite pissed that Rihanna plagarized his artwork for her music video S&M. LaChapelle, who is mostly known for his cartoonish doll-like portraits of everyone from Lil’ Kim, Amanda Lepore and Eminem, has filed a lawsuit against the Bajan beauty for swagger-jacking approximately eight of his images in the Melina-directed clip.
He says that “the music video is directly derived from and substantially similar to the LaChapelle works,” and that it copied the “composition, total concept, feel, tone, mood, theme, colors, props, settings, decors, wardrobe, and lighting” of some of his work. The lawsuit points to a specific image of Rihanna against a blue background with a piece of candy on her tongue.
Why didn't she just hire LaChapelle to direct the video instead of stealing his entire visuals without credit? Even Beyonce would have done that to avoid a lawsuit.
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