Bored Apes creator sues conceptual artist for copying its NFTs

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Six apes wearing different clothes and accessories. One has pizza in its mouth, another wears a flannel, another has 3D glasses.
Image: Bored Ape Yacht Club

The company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club has sued conceptual artist Ryder Ripps for selling duplicates of its Bored Ape non-fungible tokens or NFTs. The lawsuit, filed in a California court this weekend, accuses Ripps of a “calculated, intentional, and willful” scheme to damage BAYC while promoting his own copycat work.

Ripps and Yuga Labs have been at odds for months, in part because of Ripps’ RR/BAYC NFT series. The series used BAYC images but connected them with a different crypto token and sold them for the equivalent of around $200 apiece, a bargain compared to the real thing, which currently sell for around $100,000 on the low end. “This is no mere monkey business. It is a deliberate effort to harm Yuga Labs at the expense of...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/28/23184747/bored-apes-yuga-labs-ryder-ripps-lawsuit-trademark-infringement

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