*Update: As of February 2023, the legal issue between Paris Hilton and myself has been privately resolved
I’m not kidding. There’s another one. AND it’s the same design again.
This is actually infringement #1 technically, since it was posted on Twitter in 2019 it’s the earliest one but I didn’t know about it until now.
3 times in less than 3 years Paris has posted images infringing on my Titania Fairy Wings design and she’s refused to remove the 2nd one so I’m not even going to bother sending notice for this one until I can file a claim in the soon-to-open Copyright Claims Board tribunal.
Another aspect of her infringement is that it could be fueling brand confusion between another wing maker’s work and mine because for the last couple years she’s been making fairy wings in the same style as mine for Paris. In just the last year I’ve had at least 6 different instances of people confusing her work for mine and vice-versa.
This doesn’t happen with other wing makers with this frequency and one of those was on my Instagram post about the infringement! Someone was commenting about how those wings weren’t even mine, they named the other wing maker as the author. The wing maker in question also responded to correct them and tell them they were indeed my design. I asked her if she would kindly bring this up to Paris herself, now that she’s definitely aware of the issue but I never got a response to that. She’s still continued to work with her.
It’s also someone who had spread a rumor about me that I attacked them in a Facebook group, which makes this even more troubling for me. When confronted, she said I posted something about being the original iridescent fairy wings in a post and that it was an attack targeted at her.
The Original Iridescent Fairy Wings is my website tagline because I am literally the 1st person I know of who put iridescent film wings on the market in 2003.
My very first set of iridescent wings I made for myself were made in the 1900’s y’all.
Late 1990’s, but you get the point.
That tagline would show up in the small preview thumbnail of my website link, which I had posted in an ‘introduce yourself’ thread in the fairy group.
I don’t think I’m buying that she genuinely believed I was targeting her, it’s quite a reach.
She knew iridescent fairy wings, especially with cut metal frames, were first brought to market by myself, which is why she asked for my blessing to make cut plastic veined wings in the past, and I gave it.
I don’t know if the brand confusion or infringements are willful but I’ve never had so many repeat infringements by the same large corporate entity. It’s irresponsible at least.
I’ve been documenting all those instances and will provide that as evidence when the hearing happens in case they find it relevant.
You can find the 1st infringement blog post here: https://www.fancyfairy.com/news/2020/9/17/infringement-is-not-hot-paris-hilton
The 2nd one is here: https://www.fancyfairy.com/news/2020/12/12/thats-not-hot-paris-part-2-copyright-hullabaloo