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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. Back in 1998, Outkast dropped their now-classic album "Aquemini." There's one song that stands out in particular: "Rosa Parks," which quickly became a favorite among Outkast's listeners. It's worth noting that despite the song bearing the same name as the historical icon, it mainly focuses on the notion of becoming less popular in the rap game. The same sticker that contained the name Rosa Parks also contained a Parental Advisory warning of "explicit content." J.A. at 60. Because, as later discussed, the critical issue in this case is a determination of the artistic relevance of the title, Rosa Parks, to the content of the song, the lyrics obviously must be considered in their 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. 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." They will work with the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute to promote Parks' legacy. The settlement in the case implies no fault by the defendants. 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." On April 15, 2005, the case was settled with OutKast and their label admitting to no wrongdoing but paying an undisclosed cash settlement and agreeing to work with the Rosa and Raymond Parks 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. Rosa Parks, Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000) and Antwan Patton (Big Boi) of the rap group OutKast, settled an ongoing six-year lawsuit in which Parks accused the duo of defamation and trademark infringement in relation the group’s 1998 Aquemini’s song entitled “Rosa Parks.” In the settlement, OutKast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Arista "Rosa Parks" is a song by the hip hop duo Outkast. It was released as the second single from their album Aquemini (1998), and was that album's most successful single. The song's title comes from the civil rights movement activist Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks' legal team filed a lawsuit against OutKast and LaFace Records in a court case later known as Rosa Parks vs LaFace Records, but ultimately lost the case. LaFace Records, 329 F.3d 437 (6th Cir. 2003), we considered the allegedly defamatory lyrics of another song, Outkast's "Rosa Parks. Summary of this case from Jolliff In contrast, it cannot be said that the title in the present case, Rosa Parks, is clearly truthful as to the content of the song which, as OutKast admits, is not about Rosa Parks at all and was never intended to be about Rosa Parks, and which does not refer to Rosa Parks or to the qualities for which she is known. If the only thing Rosa Parks did was refused to give up her seat. She did that as part of a broader effort, of which she had been a part since childhood (her father was a civil rights activist, and in the early years of the movement she was involved with investigating sexual assault and rape of women of color, leading organizing efforts, among other things). “Rosa Parks” is a song by OutKast, released as the first single from their 1998 album Aquemini. The song’s title comes from the civil rights activist Rosa Parks. In 1999, Rosa Parks sued OutKast and LaFace Records over the song. The lawsuit alleged that the song misappropriated Parks’ name, and also objected to some of [] In 1998, the hip-hop group Outkast released a song, “Rosa Parks,” which peaked at No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart the following year. The song featured the chorus: “Ah-ha, hush Parks v. Laface Records Case Brief Summary: Hip hop group OutKast created a song called "Rosa Parks" and were sued by the civil rights icon for using her name without permission. Rosa Parks and rap duo OutKast have settled a lawsuit in which the civil rights pioneer accused the group of wrongly using her name in a song title, her guardian said yesterday (April 14).
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