Cardi B set to testify in person in $5million cover art lawsuit case

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Cardi B is set to testify in person in a $5million (£4.17million) lawsuit case over the artwork on her 2016 mixtape, ‘Gangsta Bitch Music Vol.

1’.Kevin Brophy Jr alleged that the rapper photoshopped his distinctive back tattoo onto someone else’s body and used it without his permission, which ultimately appropriated his likeness in “a misleading, offensive, humiliating and provocatively sexual way.”At a hearing yesterday (July 18), a federal judge in Santa Ana, California, confirmed that Cardi would be expected to testify in the case in person.U.S.

District Judge Cormac J. Carney said of the case “it’s showtime,” before adding: “I don’t think this case is a complex case, but I think it’s a very interesting case, and it’s one I think the jurors would enjoy.“I’d like them [the jurors] to know this is the case before they think about whether they want to get off the case or not.”In the 2017 lawsuit, plaintiff Brophy Jr.

claims that he suffered “distress and humiliation” because the cover art in question allegedly shows his distinctive back tattoos on a faceless man photographed with his head between the musician’s legs.Previously, Cardi B has claimed that Brophy’s tattoo art was superimposed without her knowledge on the back of a male model who posed with her for the photo.