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In the docs, Howard Rosenberg says at least 3 of his shots popped up on MTV.com and BET.com — which are both owned by Viacom. It’s deja vu for Rosenberg … who points out he also sued Viacom in 2011 for the same thing, and eventually settled.
Rosenberg says his N.W.A. pics are so valuable because they were shot in 1989 — right before Ice Cube left the group. So he says they’re rare shots of the whole lineup — Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella, and MC Ren.
Howard says he already fired off a warning letter to Viacom, which deleted the images from its websites … but they still haven’t paid him a dime.
He’s now asking a judge to make the media giant cough up his cash and stop using his pics once and for all.
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