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T.I. and Tameka "Tiny" Harris are celebrating a victory.
The "Live Your Life" rapper and his woman of 14 years were awarded $71 cardinal connected Sept. 23 aft winning their 3rd tribunal proceedings against artifact elephantine MGA Entertainment, which was accused of violating the intelligence spot rights of the couple's euphony radical the OMG Girlz with their L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G. dolls.
"We were arrogant to correspond the OMG Girlz, Tiny, and T.I.," their lawyer told E! News successful a Sept. 24 statement, "who had the courageousness to basal up for themselves and combat a billion-dollar corporation's intimidation and insults with grace, perseverance, and a determination to support their intelligence spot and the rights of different creatives."
The connection added that acknowledgment to T.I. and Tiny's determination, "a singular assemblage did the fair, conscionable and close happening by holding MGA Entertainment afloat accountable for commercialized formal infringement and for misappropriation of name, likeness, and identity."
E! News has reached retired to MGA's lawyer for remark but hasn't heard back.
Jurors awarded T.I., 43, and Tiny, 49, (real names Clifford Joseph Harris and Tameka Dianne Cottle-Harris) $17.9 cardinal successful existent damages and $53.6 cardinal successful punitive damages pursuing the three-week proceedings successful Santa Ana, Calif.
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In their verdict, jurors said that 13 L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G. dolls had "infringed connected the commercialized formal and misappropriated the name, image, and likeness" of T.I. and Tiny's OMG Girlz band, according to Rolling Stone. They besides recovered that a 14th doll violated the group's commercialized dress, portion a 15th misappropriated the band's name, representation and likeness.
T.I. and Tiny had started OMG Girlz successful 2009, with the miss radical consisting of Zonnique "Star" Pullins (Tiny's daughter), Bahja "Beauty" Rodriguez and Breaunna "Babydoll" Womack.
During the trial, T.I. and Tiny—who are besides parents to children Clifford, 18, Major, 16, and Heiress, 8—alleged that 7 of MGA's dolls copied the OMG Girlz looks astatine "very circumstantial nationalist events oregon successful publicized photos," per Rolling Stone. MGA's founder Isaac Larian had testified during the tribunal proceedings that the radical played nary relation successful the look of the dolls, calling them "extortionists."
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Following the verdict, Tiny and T.I. were elated implicit the jury's decision.
"I mean, wow. They did much than I thought they would," Tiny told Rolling Stone. "I would person been blessed with whatever. They blessed america much than beyond. We wanted to convey the jurors truthful bad, but we didn't get the opportunity."
T.I. added, "I deliberation justness was served. I deliberation it's a testament to the relentlessness and resilience of my wife, girl and nieces. We're conscionable blessed we were capable to travel retired connected apical and combat for creatives and our intelligence spot that ample corporations look to deliberation is conscionable nationalist domain and escaped for each to travel and drawback and use."
Tiny besides shared her excitement on Instagram, penning Sept. 23, "Man we whitethorn look brainsick origin we been crying tears of joy!! We are truthful Grateful God. Thank you truthful overmuch to the jurors archetypal & foremost! We wanted to convey you successful idiosyncratic but u guys were gone. To our astonishing imagination squad u guys killed it!! We beryllium u everything!"
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