Cardi B received a copyright infringement case the place a Southern California man claimed the rapper misused his again tattoos for her 2016 Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 1 mixtape cowl artwork. Kevin Michael Brophy filed the lawsuit a yr after the mixtape was launched, calling himself a “family man with minor children” and saying he’d been prompted “distress and humiliation” by the artwork, which reveals a male mannequin (not Brophy) with again tattoos in a limousine with Cardi. Brophy had been in search of $5 million.
“It’s not your client’s back,” Cardi B stated in regards to the picture, which featured a Black mannequin (Brophy is white). “It’s not him,” she continued. “To me, it doesn’t look like his back at all. The tattoo was modified, which is protected by the First Amendment.”
“He hasn’t gotten fired from his job,” Cardi added in a contentious back-and-forth with Brophy’s lawyer on Wednesday. “He hasn’t gotten a divorce. How has he suffered? He’s still in a surf shop at his job. Please tell me how he’s suffered.” According to native information, the alternate turned so heated that the decide briefly halted the trial.
After the jury dominated in her favor on Friday, Cardi stated to reporters: “I wasn’t sure if I was going to lose or not.” Among the reporters and photographers outdoors the Santa Ana courthouse have been 40 highschool college students chanting her title and asking her to signal their cellphone circumstances. One fan held up an indication asking if Cardi would take him to his homecoming dance, and she or he replied, “Yes, I’ll see what I can do.”