Parks v. LaFace Records, 329 F.3d 437 (6th Cir. 2003), was a lawsuit filed by attorney Gregory J Reed in March 1999 on Rosa Parks' behalf against American hip-hop duo Outkast and LaFace Records, claiming that the group had illegally used Parks' name without her permission for the song "Rosa Parks", the most successful radio single of Outkast's 1998 album Aquemini. In March 1999, Rosa's lawyer, Gregory J. Reed, filed a lawsuit against LaFace Records, the label that Outkast was working with at the time, on behalf of the civil rights leader. That lawsuit was dismissed in district court later that same year, which spurred Gregory to team up with fellow attorney Johnnie Cochran and appeal. The point, however, is that while we, as judges, do not presume to determine the artistic quality of the song in question, we have the responsibility, as judges, to apply a legal standard of "artistic relevance" in resolving the rights of Rosa Parks concerning the use of her name and the First Amendment rights of the Defendants in the creation According to Billboard, Parks filed a lawsuit against Outkast in 1999 alleging defamation and trademark infringement because they used her name without permission in “Rosa Parks.” The song is Rosa Parks, a civil rights icon known for her refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, filed a lawsuit against LaFace Records, OutKast (a hip-hop music duo), and associated entities. The lawsuit was in response to OutKast's use of her name in the title of their song "Rosa Parks." Rap group OutKast settles long-running legal dispute with Rosa Parks, whose actions helped start civil rights movement, over group's use of Parks's name in their song Rosa Parks; Parks sued group The 1999 lawsuit alleged defamation and trademark infringement because the Grammy-winning group OutKast used Parks' name without her permission in the song title "Rosa Parks." The chorus is: "Ah-ha, hush that fuss. Everybody move to the back of the bus." Parks, now 92, is represented by her guardian Dennis Archer. US civil rights icon Rosa Parks has won the right in court to proceed with her case against rap duo OutKast for using her name as the title of a hit song. The US Supreme Court allowed a court ruling that reinstated Ms Parks' claims, made in 1999, against OutKast and three Bertelsmann AG companies. The title alluded to Rosa Parks (plaintiff), best known for her participation in a 1955 protest against segregated busses. However, the lyrics contained no references to Parks except for the repeated line “Move to the back of the bus,” which was intended as a symbolic boast of OutKast’s superiority over its competitors in the music industry. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Reed’s claim arises from a lawsuit, settled over a decade ago, regarding the use of Parks’s name as the title of a song by the rap group OutKast.1 As part of the settlement in that lawsuit, LaFace Records made a one-time payment to Parks’s guardian ad litem, Dennis Archer, on behalf of Parks. A few months later, Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005, at 92. “It was kind of weird, because I think Rosa Parks was misled,” said OutKast engineer Neal H. Pogue, to Creative Loafing, in 2010 After a federal appeals court ruled in May that Rosa Parks could appeal a lawsuit she filed against Outkast over their hit song that uses her name in the title, a judge has reinstated most of the called "Rosa Parks" if she had not been mentally impaired. Parks filed the suit against Outkast in 1999 claiming defamation and trademark infringement for using her Rosa Parks filed a lawsuit against OutKast for using her name on their album "Aquemini" on this day in rap history. BORN X RAISED + WWE | GET NOTIFIED. $20 OFF ORDERS $100+ WITH CODE 'COMPLEXSHOP25' A federal judge in Detroit had dismissed Parks' lawsuit in 1999 over the song "Rosa Parks," saying Outkast's use of her name was protected by free speech, and the group did not need to compensate her. Court OKs Rosa Parks' lawsuit against OutKast. The Supreme Court allows the civil rights icon to reinstate her suit over the duo's hit song ''Rosa Parks'' Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 26, 1956. Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images. Most of us know Rosa Parks as the African American woman who quietly, but firmly, refused to give up her bus seat to a white person Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. That small act of Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has authorized her doctor to release medical records and explain why the 91-year-old cannot testify in a lawsuit she brought against hip-hop group OutKast, her The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way today (Dec. 8) for civil rights icon Rosa Parks to proceed with her lawsuit against rap group OutKast over a hit song with her name as its title. In December 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the hip-hop duo OutKast and their record label affiliates. By denying OutKast’s petition for review, the justices let stand an appellate court ruling that reinstated portions of Rosa Parks’ lawsuit against the musicians. In effect, the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the []
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