Yuga Labs Hit with Countersuit Over NFT Copyright

Yuga Labs, creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection at the center of a trademark dispute, were hit with a counterclaim, according to court documents filed on Monday.

Artist Ryder Ripps and his business partner Jeremy Cahen, known as Pauly0x on Twitter, asked the court to declare that BAYC images are not entitled to copyright protection due to “having been generated by an automated computer algorithm where no humans were involved in determining which of the 10,000 BAYC Images were selected,” in their newly filed lawsuit. 

The relationship between NFTs and intellectual property (IP) has been an ongoing debate. The new countersuit comes during the ongoing Yuga Lab’s trademark infringement lawsuit launched in June against Ripps and Cahen, the founders of the RR/BAYC NFT project.

Read the source article at blockworks.co