Using the image of a famous singer to profit, the Chinese game company was sued for more than 200 billion dong

Using the image of singers, actors or any other individual for commercial purposes is against the law unless that person’s consent. This is the reason why the female singer and actress is famous Selena Gomez filed a lawsuit against a developer Chinese games with a total compensation value of up to hundreds of billions of VND.
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Guangzhou Phi Dong Software Technology Company and MutantBox Interactive Limited, the companies behind the title mobile games Clothes Forever – Styling Game is facing a lawsuit of up to $ 10 million (~ VND 234 billion) for arbitrarily using Selena Gomez’s image without permission. Clothes Forever – Styling Game is basically a fashion game cheap, for players to choose, design costumes for famous people. Blood sucking game players through the sale of “Diamonds,” an in-game currency that costs between $1-99 per pack.

According to the description on the App Store, “a lot of celebrities like Kardashian, Gigi, Beyonce, Taylor, … will stop by and ask players for fashion advice”. It is not clear if Taylor Swift, Beyonce and others have received an invitation to cooperate from this company, but Gomez, whose name does not appear in the description, is alleged to be one of the characters in the game built on the original. her sample. One of the images that the player can see in the game is a young girl with brown hair and a leather miniskirt. This is apparently taken from Gomez’s Flare magazine photo from the November 2015 issue.
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The singer said she would never agree to become a character in a game that is full of unreliable transactions, just taking care of players’ money. In fact, Clothes Forever – Styling Game is just one of many games that have been and are still taking advantage of celebrity images without permission.​