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Rosa Parks Lawsuit Allowed To Continue Against Outkast
Rosa Parks won a decision against Outkast today, after the Supreme Court refused to intervene in a lawsuit over 1998's hit song "Rosa Parks."
The 90-year-old Parks alleges that Outkast violated her trademark rights and defamed her.
Parks and her lawyer, famed attorney Johnnie Cochran, scored a victory earlier this year, when a portion of the lawsuit was reinstated earlier this year.
Cochran claimed that Parks had approved an album of gospel recordings titled Verity Records Presents: A Tribute to Mrs. Rosa Parks and that fans accidently bought Aquemeni instead of the gospel album.
Cochran presented 21 affidavits at the last hearing from people who said they were "fooled into buying the rap album out of a belief that it had something to do with Parks and the civil rights movements."
OutKast argues that the song is neither false advertising nor a violation of Parks' publicity rights and is protected by the First Amendment.
Parks made history in December 1955 when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus.
Source: allhiphop.com
The 90-year-old Parks alleges that Outkast violated her trademark rights and defamed her.
Parks and her lawyer, famed attorney Johnnie Cochran, scored a victory earlier this year, when a portion of the lawsuit was reinstated earlier this year.
Cochran claimed that Parks had approved an album of gospel recordings titled Verity Records Presents: A Tribute to Mrs. Rosa Parks and that fans accidently bought Aquemeni instead of the gospel album.
Cochran presented 21 affidavits at the last hearing from people who said they were "fooled into buying the rap album out of a belief that it had something to do with Parks and the civil rights movements."
OutKast argues that the song is neither false advertising nor a violation of Parks' publicity rights and is protected by the First Amendment.
Parks made history in December 1955 when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus.
Source: allhiphop.com