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*Kendrick Lamar and SZA are being sued over their music video for the “Black Panther” soundtrack single “All The Stars.”
As previously reported, British-Liberian artist Lina Iris Viktor has accused the pair of using her “Constellations” series of paintings in the video without permission.
In the suit, she says that reps for the film reached out to her twice, first in 2016 and then in January of this year, asking her to lend her work or create new work for the movie. She turned down both requests.
But she says they used her art anyway, copying the “unique look and feel” of her works but also taking “specific copyrightable elements” including “stylized motifs of mythical animals, gilded geometric forms on a black background, and distinctively textured areas and patterns.”
Viktor is suing for damages and an injunction prohibiting Kendrick and SZA from using her artwork to promote the soundtrack.
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