Kendrick Lamar sued over 'The Blacker The Berry' artwork

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Press Trust of India Los Angeles
Last Updated : Jul 14 2015 | 3:32 PM IST
Hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar has been sued over "The Blacker The Berry' artwork, a photograph of a woman breastfeeding two children.
Photographer Giordano Cipriani has claimed the picture is clicked by him and was used without his permission.
Lamar, 28, Top Dawg Entertainment and Interscope Records were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by the photographer, reported Entertainment Weekly.
"Cipriani is entitled to damages and Defendants' profits attributable to the infringement, as well as an accounting of those profits, in an amount to be determined at trial," the lawsuit reads.
"The Blacker the Berry" by Kendrick Lamar was released in February along with the artwork for which he is now being sued on the grounds of copyright infringement.

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First Published: Jul 14 2015 | 3:32 PM IST

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