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" Rihanna has won a legal battle to stop Topshop from selling T-shirts bearing her image. The &amp;#039;Diamonds&amp;#039; singer sued parent company Arcadia Group Brands Ltd, seeking a reported $5m (\u00C2\u00A33m) in damages for selling an unknown quantity of T-shirts in Topshop through 2011 and 2012.  Rihanna had accused Topshop of attempting to pass off the T-shirt as being approved or authorised by her and her associated companies, and wrongly using her name in the course of trade to appeal to consumers with &amp;quot;an emotional connection to their heroine&amp;quot;. Topshop&amp;#039;s lawyers had claimed the 25-year-old was making an unjustifiable bid to establish a &amp;quot;free-standing image right&amp;quot; over use of her picture in the UK. In a hearing at London&amp;#039;s High Court today (July 31), Mr Justice Birss ruled that while there is &amp;quot;no such thing as a general right by a famous person to control the reproduction of their image&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;the mere sale by a trader of a T-shirt bearing an image of a famous person is not an act of passing off&amp;quot;, he considered Topshop to be at fault in this case. Court documents alleged that Topshop sold the items under the name &amp;#039;Rihanna Tank&amp;#039;, and when challenged by the star&amp;#039;s lawyers referred them as &amp;#039;Headscarf Girl Tank&amp;#039;, and then &amp;#039;Icon Tank&amp;#039;.  Rihanna claimed that the image in question was taken by a freelance photographer during the video shoot for &amp;#039;We Found Love&amp;#039; in Northern Ireland two years ago. Her attorneys pointed out that it was &amp;quot;very similar&amp;quot; to pictures on her Talk That Talk album, which could lead to fans thinking it was &amp;quot;genuine&amp;quot; Rihanna merchandise and feeling duped when they discovered otherwise. &amp;quot;The sales... gave rise to a likelihood of deception, damaging Rihanna&amp;#039;s goodwill,&amp;quot; Martin Howe QC, for Rihanna previously told reporters. &amp;quot;A substantial number of people buying, or even seeing, those T-shirts would think they are approved or somehow connected with Rihanna, when, in fact, they were not approved of or connected with her at all.&amp;quot; The &amp;#039;Stay&amp;#039; artist had stressed in the lawsuit that the photo was taken &amp;quot;without her permission&amp;quot;, but Mr Justice Birss ruled that the taking of the photograph &amp;quot;is not suggested to have breached Rihanna&amp;#039;s privacy&amp;quot;. Watch Rihanna&amp;#039;s video for &amp;#039;We Found Love&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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