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After literal Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 cover art has Brophy’s case argues copyright infringement; Cardi’s defense hinges on the fact that she paid a designer for the cover, who found a photo of Brophy’s tattoo on Google, and she had no way of knowing who the tattoo belonged to. Billboard, the judge had to actually dismiss the jurors from the courtroom to tell Cardi and Capello to chill out, even going as far as threatening to declare a mistrial. For her part, Cardi was incensed at the suggestion that Brophy’s image had contributed so much to her meteoric rise. “This is not about taking anything down,” she said. “Y’all have been harassing me for $5 million.” She explained that the mixtape didn’t earn much money and she only received a percentage of its profits in the first place. For what it’s worth, she might have a point; GBMV1 didn’t receive much attention (which is a shame, she really set the stage for her future growth on it, and it’s interesting to see how she built on the foundation it laid). Even its follow-up, Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2, didn’t get a notable reaction in comparison to her single “Bodak Yellow,” which launched her to stardom. Meanwhile, Cardi remains skeptical of Brophy’s claims. “It’s not Mr. Brophy’s back,” she said Wednesday. “It doesn’t look like Mr. Brophy at all. There has been not one receipt he has provided in the court claiming, ‘Hey, that’s you on Cardi’s mixtape.’” The verdict in the case is expected today.

A federal judge in California has upheld Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1. U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney ruled Wednesday that plaintiff Kevin Brophy’s request to overturn Brophy, the man who Judge Carney wrote in his ruling that it was Brophy and his lawyers who erred when they failed to preserve their right to bring such a request — known as a Rule 50 motion — before the case was submitted to the jury for deliberations. “The untimeliness of Brophy’s Rule 50 is reason enough to deny it. But the motion also wants for substantive merit,” Carney wrote in his ruling obtained by Rolling Stone. The judge said the jurors heard competing evidence on a variety of issues and “reasons abound to sustain the jury’s verdict of not liable on all claims.” He ruled that the image at the center of the lawsuit — where Cardi B is seen in the back of a limousine, staring into the camera, taking a swig from a Corona, and holding the back of man’s head as he appears to perform oral sex on her — involves a non-white male model who posed for the original photo and whose own back tattoo was covered up with a portion of Brophy’s elaborate tiger and serpent tattoo ripped from the internet. The judge pointed out that both Brophy and Cardi B’s former manager testified at trial that “the model appears non-white with black hair while Brophy is white and has a shaved head.” “The jury had an ample basis for its verdict. For example, the jury could have reasonably concluded that the back tattoo on the mode...

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"I wasn't sure if I was going to lose or not," she said after leaving the courthouse. She was swarmed by several reporters, photographers and more than 40 high schoolers who chanted her name. More details on the case Brophy, a self-described family man, attempted to sue Grammy winner Cardi B in a copyright-infringement lawsuit, for allegedly misusing his likeness for the sexually suggestive cover art of her 2016 debut mixtape, 'Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1'. The image features Cardi B sat in the back of car drinking from a Corona bottle, whilst a man with elaborate tattoos performs oral sex on her. The man's face cannot be seen. Brophy was seeking $5 million from Cardi B, over the appearance of some of his distinctive back tattoos, including a tiger and serpent design. The man's lawyer A. Barry Cappello said photo-editing software was used to put the back tattoo, which has appeared in tattoo magazines, onto the male model used in the mixtape cover. “Their life has been disrupted,” Cappello told the jury as Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, watched from the defence table. He said the image disturbed Brophy along with his wife, Lindsay Michelle Brophy, who he says initially questioned her husband if it was him in the cover art. The couple has two young children. Kevin Michael Brophy and his wife Lindsay leave federal court as proceedings continue Chris Pizzello/Invision Cardi B, fighting the allegations, said an artist used only a “small portion” of the tattoos w...

Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1 is over. On Friday, days after the rap star appeared in court to battle the Brophy — whose back was pictured in the cover art for the rapper’s mixtape — had originally sued Cardi, claiming that the “raunchy” artwork had “ruined” his private life. “After the verdict, Michael Brophy, Cardi B and [her former manager] shook hands, they were gracious winners,” Brophy’s attorney told Rolling Stone in a statement. “Mr. Brophy is a stand-up human being. If this chapter can close, it may be best for the Brophy family’s ability to put this behind them. That’s all that is important.” A male model originally posed for the photo, but that tattoo on the model’s back was digitally replaced with one of a tiger and serpent, according to his lawyers. That superimposed tattoo turned out to be part of a “back piece” that Brophy considered a core piece of his identity. “It felt like my Michelangelo was stolen off the wall and just literally ripped off and robbed and just put wherever these people wanted to put it,” Brophy, a marketing manager at RVCA, originally testified. “It looks like I’m giving oral sex to somebody that’s not my wife, somebody that’s not my partner, and an image that I never signed off on, ever.” As for Cardi, her attorneys described the suit as a “money grab” and sustained that the image “is not his likeness” and that the tattoo that was superimposed was “very, very different” from Brophy’s. Cardi took the witness stand as well this week, testif...

"I wasn't sure if I was going to lose or not," she said after leaving the courthouse. She was swarmed by several reporters, photographers and more than 40 high schoolers who chanted her name. More details on the case Brophy, a self-described family man, attempted to sue Grammy winner Cardi B in a copyright-infringement lawsuit, for allegedly misusing his likeness for the sexually suggestive cover art of her 2016 debut mixtape, 'Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1'. The image features Cardi B sat in the back of car drinking from a Corona bottle, whilst a man with elaborate tattoos performs oral sex on her. The man's face cannot be seen. Brophy was seeking $5 million from Cardi B, over the appearance of some of his distinctive back tattoos, including a tiger and serpent design. The man's lawyer A. Barry Cappello said photo-editing software was used to put the back tattoo, which has appeared in tattoo magazines, onto the male model used in the mixtape cover. “Their life has been disrupted,” Cappello told the jury as Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, watched from the defence table. He said the image disturbed Brophy along with his wife, Lindsay Michelle Brophy, who he says initially questioned her husband if it was him in the cover art. The couple has two young children. Kevin Michael Brophy and his wife Lindsay leave federal court as proceedings continue Chris Pizzello/Invision Cardi B, fighting the allegations, said an artist used only a “small portion” of the tattoos w...

After literal Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 cover art has Brophy’s case argues copyright infringement; Cardi’s defense hinges on the fact that she paid a designer for the cover, who found a photo of Brophy’s tattoo on Google, and she had no way of knowing who the tattoo belonged to. Billboard, the judge had to actually dismiss the jurors from the courtroom to tell Cardi and Capello to chill out, even going as far as threatening to declare a mistrial. For her part, Cardi was incensed at the suggestion that Brophy’s image had contributed so much to her meteoric rise. “This is not about taking anything down,” she said. “Y’all have been harassing me for $5 million.” She explained that the mixtape didn’t earn much money and she only received a percentage of its profits in the first place. For what it’s worth, she might have a point; GBMV1 didn’t receive much attention (which is a shame, she really set the stage for her future growth on it, and it’s interesting to see how she built on the foundation it laid). Even its follow-up, Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2, didn’t get a notable reaction in comparison to her single “Bodak Yellow,” which launched her to stardom. Meanwhile, Cardi remains skeptical of Brophy’s claims. “It’s not Mr. Brophy’s back,” she said Wednesday. “It doesn’t look like Mr. Brophy at all. There has been not one receipt he has provided in the court claiming, ‘Hey, that’s you on Cardi’s mixtape.’” The verdict in the case is expected today.

Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1 is over. On Friday, days after the rap star appeared in court to battle the Brophy — whose back was pictured in the cover art for the rapper’s mixtape — had originally sued Cardi, claiming that the “raunchy” artwork had “ruined” his private life. “After the verdict, Michael Brophy, Cardi B and [her former manager] shook hands, they were gracious winners,” Brophy’s attorney told Rolling Stone in a statement. “Mr. Brophy is a stand-up human being. If this chapter can close, it may be best for the Brophy family’s ability to put this behind them. That’s all that is important.” A male model originally posed for the photo, but that tattoo on the model’s back was digitally replaced with one of a tiger and serpent, according to his lawyers. That superimposed tattoo turned out to be part of a “back piece” that Brophy considered a core piece of his identity. “It felt like my Michelangelo was stolen off the wall and just literally ripped off and robbed and just put wherever these people wanted to put it,” Brophy, a marketing manager at RVCA, originally testified. “It looks like I’m giving oral sex to somebody that’s not my wife, somebody that’s not my partner, and an image that I never signed off on, ever.” As for Cardi, her attorneys described the suit as a “money grab” and sustained that the image “is not his likeness” and that the tattoo that was superimposed was “very, very different” from Brophy’s. Cardi took the witness stand as well this week, testif...

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