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Artist sues Lego for copying Queer Eye leather jacket design

2022-01-17 00:00:00

Artist James Concannon designed a stenciled leather jacket for "Queer Eye" star Antoni Porowski. Lego copied the jacket without Concannon's permission and Concannon is now suing Lego for copyright infringement.

Concannon's black leather jacket has white stencil art of a skull, a peace sign, and a Yin-yang symbol. The Lego piece has similar symbols in roughly the same location.

If Lego had only given Concannon's 6-year-old son a free Lego set as promised, the matter could have been settled out of the court. But Lego wanted to play hardball.

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