Diddy Sued For Copyright Infringement
Artwork on the left and Diddy's cologne bottle on the right.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is being sued by a glass artist who says Diddy ripped off two of his sculptures design for the packaging for his colgone, Unforgivable.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Springfield, Massachusetts, Tom Patti says that the cologne’s packaging – the bottle fits inside a stylish ridged plastic cradle – is a rip-off of two copyrighted tabletop glass sculptures he created in the early 1980s called “Compacted Gray With Clear and Ribs” and “Modulated Solar Airframe.”
“A couple of years ago, my phone started ringing,” Patti says. “Everywhere I went, people started congratulating me on the success of my fragrance container. I didn’t know what they were talking about. Eventually, I realized that Combs had replicated my work.”
He wants to stop the use of the design and wants all profits traceable to the alleged copyright infringement.
Patti’s suit claims that even art experts noticed the resembleance of the bottle to his designs. Last fall, The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly featured photographs of Patti’s “Compacted Gray With Clear and Ribs” and the cologne bottle under the headline, ” ‘Unforgivable,’ Indeed.”
The magazine contacted the two credited designers of the fragrance bottle, James Gager and Johan Liden, about the strong resemblance, but they replied that the bottle simply reflected Diddy’s interest in architecture, according to the article.
Both designers are listed as defendants in the lawsuit, along with Diddy.
Unforgivable was one of the biggest selling cologne in 2006. – Source
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