The NY Times reports: Rap Group Settles Rosa Parks Lawsuit
The rap group OutKast settled a long-running legal dispute yesterday with Rosa Parks, whose actions helped start the civil rights movement, over the group’s use of Mrs. Parks’s name in a song.
Mrs. Parks had sued the group in a federal court in Detroit in 1999, saying that its song, ‘Rosa Parks’ whose lyrics do not name Mrs. Parks but contain the lines ‘Ah ha, hush that fuss/Everybody move to the back of the bus’ had defamed her and violated her right of publicity.
