Designer/Artist Nadia Plesner [1] is being sued by Louis Vuitton for trademark infringement on her Simple Living T-shirt [2], where 100% of the profits from sales are donated to Divest for Darfur.
Nadia explains her motif:
My illustration Simple Living is an idea inspired by the medias constant cover of completely meaningless things.
My thought was: Since doing nothing but wearing designerbags and small ugly dogs appearantly is enough to get you on a magasine cover, maybe it is worth a try for people who actually deserves and needs attention.
Louis Vuitton's letter to Nadia reads in part:
Although we applaud your efforts to raise awareness and funds to help Darfur, a most worthy cause, we cannot help noticing that the design of the Simple Living Products includes the reproduction of a bag infringing on Louis Vuitton's Intellectual Property Rights, in particular the Louis Vuitton Monogram Multicolore Trademark to which it is confusingly similar. We are surprised of such a promotion of a counterfeit bag.
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