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LEGO has been named in a copyright lawsuit over a jacket that adorns one of its mini-figures in the Queer Eye set that it released last fall. In the complaint that he filed in a federal court in Connecticut in December, artist James Concannon asserts that in 2018, he created a custom leather jacket for Antoni Porowski, one of the stars of Netflix’s Queer Eye series, which LEGO “intentionally” replicated for its Queer Eye-themed set without seeking Concannon’s authorization and without compensating him. What LEGO did do, Concannon claims, was to offer him “a free Fab 5 Loft set – which retails for $99.99 – for [his] six-year-old son to play with, only to later revoke that offer, telling [him] that LEGO does not give away its products for free.”
According to Concannon’s copyright infringement complaint, Porowski wore a number of garments bearing his artwork on the Netflix show, and in all but one instance (when Porowski wore the leather jacket), Concannon says that he received an email from a clearance coordinator for the show to approve such uses. (Is that really necessary?) In light of his friendship with Porowski and given that Porowski often credited him as the creator of the works that appeared on the show, Concannon claims that when he saw the jacket – which he “created using a plain black leather jacket that Porowski sent to Concannon, to which Concannon added his original artwork, composing and arranging each artistic element to reflect his signature aesthetic” – on an episode of the show, he “figured this was simply an oversight on Netflix’s part and was not disturbed.”
Read more silliness here. https://www.thefashionlaw.com/lego-name-in-copyright-lawsuit-over-leather-jacket-design/
