Intellectual Property,
Entertainment & Sports
Oct. 19, 2022
Cardi B didn’t misappropriate surfer’s tattoo, lawyer says
Newport Beach surfwear marketer Kevin Michael Brophy Jr. says his tattoo was incorporated in the artwork for the rapper’s debut album, “Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1.
SANTA ANA — An attorney for hip-hop recording artist Cardi B, who is being sued along with her former manager by a Newport Beach surfwear marketer for misappropriating a likeness of his back tattoos on the cover art for one of the rapper’s mixtapes, told a federal jury Tuesday there was no evidence to support the accusations.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP partner Peter J. Anderson, the lead counsel for Cardi B, pointed to plaintiff Kevin Micha...
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