Ryder Ripps News

Bored Ape Yacht Club creators, Yuga Labs, are accusing artist Ryder Ripps of contempt of court. In a recent filing, they allege Ripps deliberately destroyed access to his wallets containing RR/BAYC NFTs to avoid complying with a court order.

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A California federal judge said that Yuga Labs, the blockchain company behind some of the most popular collectibles of the NFT boom, is entitled to receive nearly $1.6 million in damages, plus legal fees, from a conceptual artist and his business partner who copied Bored Ape’s NFT art.

A United States district court judge has ordered nonfungible token (NFT) artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen to pay Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs a total of $1.57 million in disgorgement and damages, along with legal fees, bringing an end to the long-running “copycat” NFT lawsuit.

The attorney representing NFT artist Ryder Ripps and his co-founder, Jeremy Cahen (known by the pseudonym “Pauly” on X), struggled to convince a panel of judges to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Bored Ape Yacht Club against his clients. 

Nonfungible token (NFT) artist Ryder Ripps’ most recent attempt to dismiss the Bored Ape Yacht Club-related lawsuit against him appears to have fallen on skeptical ears.

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) creators Yuga Labs have scored a key win in their long-running court battle with Ryder Ripps, the co-creator of copycat NFT project RR/BAYC. Yuga Labs initially filed a complaint against Ryder Ripps and co-founder Jeremy Cahen back in July 2022, alleging that the duo had engaged in trademark infringement, false advertising, and unfair competition, among other things. In a pre-trial summary judgment ruling on April 21, a U.S. district court in central California found that Ripps and Cahen had infringed Yuga Lab’s trademarks with their RR/BAYC NFT collection. The Court further ruled that Yuga Labs is entitled to an injunction and damages, the latter of which will be determined at trial. The case highlights the importance of protecting intellectual property rights in the burgeoning NFT market.

The hugely popular non-fungible token (NFT) maker of Bored Ape, Yuga Labs, has recently won its case against copycat Ryder Ripps. 

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) creators Yuga Labs has scored a key win in its long-running court battle with Ryder Ripps, the co-creator of copycat NFT project RR/BAYC.

Lawyers of Jimmy Fallon, star of NBC’s long-running comedy and variety series The Tonight Show, have filed a petition to "quash" a subpoena requiring him to testify in the Yuga Labs Inc. v. Ripps et al. case. 

The legal dispute between the inventor of the nonfungible token collection Bored Ape Yacht Club and one of the developers of a copycat collection known as RR/BAYC has been resolved via a settlement.

In this week’s newsletter, read about how France’s top contemporary art museum will display nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Find out why a founder of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) copycat project, RR/BAYC, is opposing trademark applications from Yuga Labs. Check out how NFTs based on Ethereum lost 60% of their market capitalization, and learn how Bitcoin (BTC) non-zero addresses surged because of Bitcoin NFTs. And don’t forget this week’s Nifty News, featuring American socialite Paris Hilton launching a dating metaverse called Parisland. 

One of the founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club copycat NFT collection RR/BAYC has filed an opposition notice against 10 trademark applications from Yuga Labs.

The creator of the nonfungible token (NFT) collection Bored Ape Yacht Club has settled a lawsuit with one of the developers behind a copycat collection known as RR/BAYC. 

The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) collection is back to the top of the NFT sales volume charts. After spending some days outside the top spot, HODLers were beginning to worry. Despite the rush surrounding Sorare, Moonbirds, and NBA Top Shot, the Ape collection has reclaimed the throne.

Yuga Labs is the limelight again. However, this time around the NFT giant announced that it has filed a lawsuit against old critic Ryder Ripps in a 43-page testimony in California. The founder of the famous Bored Ape Yacht Club [BAYC] claim that Ripps has been “scamming” buyers with falsely equivalent NFTs attempting to harm the standing of the apes in the NFT marketplace. Let’s see if the lawsuit affected BAYC sales and volume since the announcement.

Yuga Labs has finally broken its silence over the conspiracy theory that alleges the team embedded alt-right and Nazi memes/imagery into the artwork and branding behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC).

A video released by investigative YouTuber Philip Rusnack, known as ‘Philion,’ has revived the debate over whether Yuga Labs’ flagship Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible token (NFT) collection employs racist imagery and white supremacist esotericism.