Jewelry brand Leta sued Sunlight, accusing it of stealing original jewelry. Leta demands that Sunlight remove all copied brand products from sale, as well as compensation in the amount of 3.5 million rubles. This is due to the statement of claim, which is at the disposal of socialbites.ca.
A statement by Mikhail Tantsura, co-founder and director of the jewelry brand Leta, to socialbites.ca, demanding withdrawal from sale, banning imports (the jewelry is made abroad), withdrawing from circulation and destroying all copies, as well as paying compensation March 27, 2023 A lawsuit was filed with the Moscow Arbitration Court in the amount of 3.5 million rubles.
According to her, representatives of the Sunlight company did not respond to the initial requests from Leta.
“They are not commenting on the situation either to us or to the media. But Leta branded subscribers who supported us and shared this story on social networks sent a pretty standard response to the situation. “They also deny the fact that it’s a copy.”
Mikhail Tantsura added that with the first wave of news about plagiarism, all links to copied jewelry have been removed from the official Sunlight website.
“But we knew this would happen, so we first saved all the links to the web archive. We have a ready presentation with original Leta jewelry and Sunlight replicas. The Leta brand notarizes all the sketches and product descriptions when creating the collection,” he said.
socialbites.ca sent an official request to Sunlight on March 21, 2023, but no response has yet been received.