Vampire Weekend's legal face-off

The US band Vampire Weekend have got themselves into a legal wrangle over their use of a 30-year-old picture of a woman'Blake's got a new face," sang indie chart-toppers Vampire Weekend on their debut album – if only they'd followed Blake's lead. The model on the cover of their second album, Contra, whose face also adorned the backdrop of their gigs, is suing the band for $2m (£1.3m), claiming they had been using the photograph without her permission.Ann Kennis, known professionally as Kirste...

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