Country star Luke Combs expressed his displeasure with a fan being sued for selling homemade drink tumblers with his face on them.
A federal judge in Illinois ordered Florida-based fan Nicol Harness to pay the singer $250,000 for copyright infringement after she was accused of using the singer’s likeness without his permission. Her case was part of a larger copyright infringement lawsuit.
Per Tampa Bay’s local NBC affiliate, WFLA, Harness has congestive heart failure and “her only job is selling homemade tumblers and T-shirts through Amazon.” The fan said she purchased the artwork online and sold 18 tumblers for $20 each, making a total of $380.
Harness told WFLA she didn’t find out about the $250,000 judgment until she wasn’t able to withdraw money from her Amazon seller account, which had a balance of $5,500.
“It’s very stressful. I don’t have money to pay my…
