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Madonna Sued For Copyright Infringement
10/01/2003 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
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(10/1/03, 10 a.m. ET) -- The late Guy Bourdin was a fashion photographer best known for his work for the French edition of Vogue magazine from the 1950s through the 1980s. Bourdin, whose photos were the subject of a recent exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum in London, died in 1991. However, his son has filed a lawsuit against Madonna, claiming she stole Bourdin's intense graphic images for a montage of photos seen in the video for her song, "Hollywood."
Samuel Bourdin, who claims he owns the copyrights on his father's pictures, filed his lawsuit on Friday (September 26) in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The lawsuit includes comparisons of Bourdin's photos to the photo montage seen in Madonna's video. In a press release, Bourdin said, "It's one thing to draw inspiration; it's quite another to simply plagiarize the heart and soul of my father's work."
Samuel Bourdin is seeking unspecified damages from Madonna, her record company, and MTV, among others.
The website thesmokinggun.com has posted the photos and video stills online. In one example, Bourdin's photo shows a woman straddling a black-and-white TV, while the still photo from Madonna's video shows her in a surprisingly similar pose. Another original Bourdin photo shows a woman with red hair on a pink bed with mirrors behind her--the shot from Madonna's video is nearly identical.
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