
Yuga Labs, the company behind the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection, has filed a lawsuit against digital artist, Ryder Ripps, for selling unauthorized copies of Ape NFTs. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California late last week.
The suit targets a collection of NFTs Ripps had started that directly copied Apes and re-minted them as new NFTs. The “RR/BAYC” collection has already been removed from the OpenSea marketplace.