A photographer who took a famous photo of rapper Eazy-E 30 years ago sued skateboarding magazine brand Thrasher for allegedly reproducing and selling the photo on shirts without his permission.
Ithaka Darin Pappas is an artist known for photographing the emerging West Coast hip-hop culture of the late 1980s. Pappas said he took an “iconic” picture of Eazy-E of the influential rap group NWA “cavorting with local skateboarders in Venice Beach, California” in 1989.
Pappas said he learned in 2017 that Thrasher was selling t-shirts and sweatshirts that included his photograph without his permission. Pappas said that defendant Cesario Montano ...
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