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Britney Loses Louis Vuitton Lawsuit

Britney's legal woes continue. LVMH the giant corporation that owns Louis Vuitton won its lawsuit to ban the viewing of Britney's video for the song "Do Somethin'" which is notable mostly for how shockingly in shape Britney was (this is in 1995). During one scene Brit and friends are riding in a pink Hummer that has a faux Murakami cherry print dashboard, which infuriated Louis Vuitton. We watched the video and you can barely see it. Anyway, they won big damages and the right to pull the video from the Interwebs.

LVMH's Louis Vuitton unit has won 80,000 eur in damages and the banning of a Britney Spears video which uses an unauthorised close-up shot of Louis Vuitton fabric, Le Figaro reported.

In the video, Spears appears in a car upholstered with Louis Vuitton fabric. The tribunal found the director of the video had clearly emphasised the Louis Vuitton brand, the report said. The tribunal ruled that responsibility for the unauthorised use of the Louis Vuitton brand lay with Sony BMG and its subsidiary Zomba as well as MTV Online, and not the singer herself.

That's about $120,000. You can see the video on YouTube here -- at least until Louis Vuitton pulls it down.

Posted on November 19, 2007

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