Rihanna accused of ripping off German photographer too

When it rains it pours.

Just one day after esteemed celebrity photographer David LaChapelle filed a lawsuit against Rihanna for stealing his concepts for her much-maligned video “S&M”, she is now under attack by a lesser known photographer who is also accusing her of theft.

In the suit, according to Reuters, LaChapelle says that “the music video is directly derived from and substantially similar to the LaChapelle works.” He is asking for unspecified damages. The suit was filed Feb. 14 in New York City.

In addition to wholesale copying and reenacting of LaChapelle’s famous work in her video, Rihanna, 22, now stands accused of copying the infamous “media room” scene from Philipp Paulus, a German photographer’s photo shoot.

Rihanna will learn that there’s a fine line between paying homage to famous art photographers and completely ripping off their work without crediting them.

Fresh from dealing with all the negative press that ‘S&M’ attracted due to the nature of its lyrics and video, Rihanna could now have another controversy to deal with.

According to an unnamed source, a German photographer has come forward to claim that the idea behind the ‘S&M’ music video was partially copied from his fashion editorial called ‘PAPERWORLD.’ The nineteen year old photographer named Philip Paulus, claims that he shot the editorial in August 2010, and TEAM-Rihanna has completely copied his idea in one of the ‘S&M’ scenes, with no respect to the copyright laws.

Does this remind you of another notorious, no-talented thief in the music industry? I don’t feel sorry for Rihanna at all. I actually feel relieved that I no longer have to defend her from my sensible readers who knew she was a fraud all along.