Cardi B to testify as publicity rights case over mixtape artwork heads to court
completemusicupdate.comCardi B will be testifying in court for the second time this year next month. This time in relation to her dispute with a model whose distinctive tattoos appeared on the cover of the rapper’s 2016 mixtape ‘Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 1’.The model, Kevin Brophy, accuses the rapper, real name Belcalis Almánzar, of infringing his publicity rights under Californian law.
The man who appears on the cover of ‘Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 1’ has his back to the camera and it’s designed to look like he is performing oral sex on the rapper.
Because of the distinctive tattoos on the man’s back, Brophy argues, everyone assumes it is him in the image.Almánzar’s legal reps will tell the court next month that a designer superimposed Brophy’s distinctive tattoos onto the back of the man who actually was photographed with the rapper, but that this happened without their client’s knowledge.They will also argue that the skin tone of the man in the photo makes it clear that it is not actually Brophy, plus the designer also altered the tattoo design in Photoshop.
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