Yuga Labs Wins Battle With The Impersonator Ryder Ripps
Yuga Labs, the creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), has won a significant legal fight with Ryder Ripps, the co-creator of the copycat NFT project RR/BAYC. Yuga Labs sued content producer Ryder Ripps and the NFT RR/BAYC collection in mid-2022, saying he infringed on intellectual property rights by advertising “similar” digital art pieces, such as the Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) collection, in order to fool viewers and benefit themselves. In May 2022, Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen produced the BAYC derivative NFT collection RR/BAYC as a parody and protested against Yuga Laboratories. The project makes extensive use of footage from the BAYC NFTs. On February 6, 2023, Thomas Lehman, a smart contract developer and the owner of a website that sells counterfeit collections agreed to a settlement with Yuga Labs to end the legal struggle. Yuga Labs desires to hold Mr. Ripps and Mr. Cahen responsible for their violation via an evil and unjustified campaign of falsehoods, and Mr. Lehman’s rejection of their acts is appreciated. Nevertheless, the transaction seems to have failed.
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