{"id":216901,"date":"2021-04-01T22:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T19:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ice-cube-claims-robinhood-of-used-photo-for-retribution\/"},"modified":"2021-04-01T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T19:45:56","slug":"ice-cube-claims-robinhood-of-used-photo-for-retribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ice-cube-claims-robinhood-of-used-photo-for-retribution\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ice Cube claims Robinhood of used photo for ‘retribution’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ice Cube claims Robinhood of used photo for ‘retribution’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Ice Cube has a message for Robinhood: \u201cCheck Yo Self.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rapp<\/a>er-turned-actor filed a scorched-earth lawsuit this week accusing the stock-trading app of tarnishing his reputation in an act of \u201ctransparent retribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinhood incited Ice Cube\u2019s rage by using what appears to be a photo from his 2007 comedy film \u201cAre We Done Yet?\u201d in the March 8 edition<\/a> of its financial news<\/a>letter, \u201cRobinhood Snacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The image showing Ice Cube giving a puzzled look while standing next to co-star John C. McGinley is captioned \u201cCorrect yourself, before you wreck yourself,\u201d an apparent play on the rapper\u2019s hit song \u201cCheck Yo Self.\u201d<\/p>\n

The celebrity born O\u2019Shea Jackson claims Robinhood wanted to \u201cpunish\u201d him because his business partner, Jeff Kwatinetz, is involved in a lawsuit against the Silicon Valley darling over its decision to block users from trading Game<\/a>Stop and other popular stocks in January.<\/p>\n

Robinhood \u2014 led by CEO Vlad Tenev, whom the complaint refers to as \u201cthe Stock Impaler\u201d \u2014 did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to a request for comment Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev <\/figcaption>
Getty Images for TechCrunch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

But the company told Yahoo Finance<\/a> that it did not use Ice Cube\u2019s image without permission.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe image was licensed and used for non-commercial, editorial purposes in connection with a blog article,\u201d Robinhood spokesperson Lavinia Chirico told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Kwatinetz\u2019s class-action case is one of several suits Robinhood is facing over the market frenzy led by rookie investors on Reddit\u2019s WallStreetBets forum.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Ice Cube has no involvement in that lawsuit, Defendants\u2019 resulting actions speak volumes about their petty, vindictive, and malicious nature,\u201d the \u201cIt Was a Good Day\u201d artist\u2019s complaint says.<\/p>\n

In his lawsuit accusing Robinhood of trademark infringement, Ice Cube says the startup\u2019s use of the photo and a variation on his signature catchphrase creates the false impression that he endorses its \u201chorrible products and services \u2014 the last things in the world to which Ice Cube would ever attach his image and likeness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRobinhood has picked on the wrong man this time,\u201d reads the complaint filed Wednesday in California federal court.<\/p>\n

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Photo illustration of the Robinhood logo<\/figcaption>
SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIn short, just as Robinhood\u2019s recent well-known conduct has resulted in Congressional investigations and numerous class action lawsuits, so too has it stolen and diminished the hard-earned image and brand of Ice Cube, one of the most prominent Black voices in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ice Cube\u2019s suit also makes note of Robinhood\u2019s previous corporate woes, including the numerous outages its trading platform suffered last year and the $65 million settlement it reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission in December.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Ice Cube claims Robinhood of used photo for ‘retribution’” Ice Cube has a message for Robinhood: \u201cCheck Yo Self.\u201d The rapper-turned-actor filed a scorched-earth lawsuit this week accusing the stock-trading app of tarnishing his reputation in an act of \u201ctransparent retribution.\u201d Robinhood incited Ice Cube\u2019s rage by using what appears to be a photo from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/ice-cube-sues-robinhood.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[86706,100353,72901,70446],"class_list":["post-216901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-robinhood","tag-4-1-21","tag-ice-cube","tag-lawsuits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}