Rihanna had filed a lawsuit against British fashion giant, Topshop, for using her picture on T-shirts without her approval.
Los Angeles:
R&B star Rihanna has won a legalbattle with Topshop over a T-shirt bearing her image.
The star sued Topshop's parent company Arcadia for 3.3 millionpounds over the T-shirts, which featured a photo taken duringa video shoot in 2011, reported BBC online.
Read: Rihanna sues fashion brand for USD 5 million over a picture dispute
Her lawyers told the High Court in London the fashionchain duped fans and may have damaged her reputation.
They said the picture was "very similar" to images usedon CD sleeves for one of her albums.
Judge, Justice Birss, ruled that a "substantial number"of buyers were likely to have been deceived into buying theT-shirt because of a "false belief" that it had been approvedby the singer.
He said it was damaging to her "goodwill" and representeda loss of control over her reputation in the "fashion sphere".
Topshop's lawyers had claimed the 25-year-old was makingan unjustifiable bid to establish a "free standing imageright" over use of her picture in the UK.
The photograph used by Topshop had been taken duringfilming of a music video in Northern Ireland in 2011.
In a two-minute judgement Birss, said there was "no suchthing as a general right by a famous person to control thereproduction of their image".
"The taking of the photograph is not suggested to havebreached Rihanna's privacy. The mere sale by a trader of aT-shirt bearing an image of a famous person is not an act ofpassing off.
"However, I find that Topshop's sale of this T-shirt wasan act of passing off," he continued.
The star sued Topshop's parent company Arcadia for 3.3 millionpounds over the T-shirts, which featured a photo taken duringa video shoot in 2011, reported BBC online.
Read: Rihanna sues fashion brand for USD 5 million over a picture dispute
Her lawyers told the High Court in London the fashionchain duped fans and may have damaged her reputation.
They said the picture was "very similar" to images usedon CD sleeves for one of her albums.
Judge, Justice Birss, ruled that a "substantial number"of buyers were likely to have been deceived into buying theT-shirt because of a "false belief" that it had been approvedby the singer.
He said it was damaging to her "goodwill" and representeda loss of control over her reputation in the "fashion sphere".
Topshop's lawyers had claimed the 25-year-old was makingan unjustifiable bid to establish a "free standing imageright" over use of her picture in the UK.
The photograph used by Topshop had been taken duringfilming of a music video in Northern Ireland in 2011.
In a two-minute judgement Birss, said there was "no suchthing as a general right by a famous person to control thereproduction of their image".
"The taking of the photograph is not suggested to havebreached Rihanna's privacy. The mere sale by a trader of aT-shirt bearing an image of a famous person is not an act ofpassing off.
"However, I find that Topshop's sale of this T-shirt wasan act of passing off," he continued.
