Is Robinhood About to Get Wrecked After (Mis)Quoting Ice Cube? Eriq Gardner
That now-famous lyric from Ice Cube off his 1992 album,
The Predator, is at the center of a lawsuit from the rapper-actor against Robinhood, which offers a very popular stock-trading app. Has the lyric become a catchphrase? Or is the lyric so generic that in the three decades since the release of “Check Yo Self,” the phrase has fallen into the public domain and is now free for all to use? Attorneys for O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson and Robinhood are debating this in federal court in San Francisco. It’s not too hard to squint and see this case as having larger relevance in the era of the meme.
Ice Cube Files Lawsuit Against Robinhood for Using His Pic and Lyrics Without Permission
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Ice Cube sues Robinhood for using a photo from Are We Done Yet
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