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Kat Von D Wins Copyright Trial Over Miles Davis Tattoo

Kat Von D won a resounding victory Friday at the copyright infringement trial over a tattoo she inked on a friend free of charge seven years ago.

In closing arguments Friday, Sedlik’s lawyer Robert Allen said his client spent three years planning the photograph and went as far as building “a studio on the beach” because he was a perfectionist. Von D’s attorney said the artist inked the tattoo for her friend, Blake Farmer, free of charge and later posted it on social media for her fans to see her process and share in her personal life. He claimed Von D never sold it as a print, poster or t-shirt, and when she posted about it “a handful of times on her Instagram and Facebook accounts, she wasn’t promoting anything commercial.”

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