A Dumbarton teen has described his first-ever gig at the famous King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut music venue as his ‘best performance’ as he opened for a Boston-born folk singer.
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Kevin Brophy, the man whose distinctive tattoo features on the cover of Cardi B’s 2016 mixtape ‘Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 1’, yesterday told a US court that the artwork had left him “distressed” and “ashamed”. He is also “anxious” that his two children will one day see the image – which features a man positioned to look like he is performing oral sex on the rapper, with Brophy’s tattoo Photoshopped onto his back.In his lawsuit, filed back in 2017, Brophy claimed that, because his tattoo is very unique, people assume it is him in the photo.
And given the explicit nature of the artwork, that has resulted in him facing frequent “uncomfortable comments, questions, and ridicule from community members and family”. In legal terms, he claims Cardi B and her team infringed his so called publicity rights by using his image without permission.The dispute has finally reach the trial stage. According to Law360, during the first day of the proceedings, Brophy’s legal rep argued that, not only did Cardi B – real name Belcalis Almánzar – use the tattoo photo without permission, but she repeatedly ignored cease and desist requests and demands from his client once he became aware of the artwork.Attorney Barry Cappello added that Almánzar and her manager Klenord ‘Shaft’ Raphael specifically chose the image of Brophy’s tattoo because it fit the image she was trying to build as “a gangsta from the hood”.
To that end an alternative tattoo image was rejected because it was too “cartoonish” and amateur-looking.But the image of Brophy’s tattoo “wasn’t hers to take”, the lawyer said. “It’s the personal property and identity of a private citizen, not another celebrity.
A Dumbarton teen has described his first-ever gig at the famous King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut music venue as his ‘best performance’ as he opened for a Boston-born folk singer.
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Cardi B scored another win in court last week when a jury ruled that she did not infringe the publicity rights of Kevin Brophy, the man whose distinctive tattoo design appeared without permission on the cover of her 2016 mixtape ‘Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 1’.Brophy sued the rapper – real name Belcalis Almánzar – in 2017. A photo of his distinctive tattoo was Photoshopped onto the cover of the 2016 mixtape, so that it appeared on the back of a man who was positioned to look like he was performing oral sex on the rapper.He argued that the unauthorised use of the tattoo image meant people assumed it was him in the photo, and – given the explicit nature of the artwork – that had resulted in him facing frequent “uncomfortable comments, questions, and ridicule from community members and family”.The long running dispute finally got to trial last week.
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