James Concannon, a multi-disciplinary artist, sued the toy company Lego in the United States District Court of Connecticut for copyright infringement. Concannon asserts that he created a custom leather jacket as a gift for Antoni Porowski, star of Netflix's Queer Eye series, and that Lego's "Queer Eye - The Fab 5 Loft" toy set includes a jacket that infringes his design.
Concannon's complaint alleges that whereas Queer Eye's production team usually obtained his permission for Mr. Porowski to wear his designs on the show, he was never contacted regarding the jacket at issue. Concannon claims that although "[h]e was happy to see his work featured on the show" and "appreciated that Porowski often credited him as the creator of the works that appeared on the show," he never granted "Netflix a license to display the jacket on the show" and that "he certainly never agreed to allow Lego . . . to commercially exploit his artwork for...
