{"id":558,"date":"2014-01-16T00:46:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T08:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=558"},"modified":"2014-01-16T00:46:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T08:46:22","slug":"kanye-west-sues-in-ny-to-stop-coinye-west-bitcoins-from-cashing-in-on-his-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/16\/kanye-west-sues-in-ny-to-stop-coinye-west-bitcoins-from-cashing-in-on-his-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West sues in NY to stop &#8216;Coinye West&#8217; bitcoins from cashing in on his success"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1257498nyp9synz9t49818.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-559\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of Kanye West\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1257498nyp9synz9t49818.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1257498nyp9synz9t49818.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1257498nyp9synz9t49818-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of Kanye West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014Kanye West has filed a New York lawsuit to stop production of \u201cCoinye West\u201d bitcoins that he says unjustly cash in on his fame.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper\u2019s lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. It seeks to stop companies and individuals that have not yet been identified from exchanging the digital currency. It also seeks unspecified damages for hurting West\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says the creators of the digital coins \u201cbrazenly admit\u201d that they used West\u2019s name and likeness to associate their new currency with West because he is a trendsetter.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says entrepreneurs boasted that the currency can\u2019t be stopped whether it \u201clooks like a dollar, a dog or a cartoon picture of a rapper.\u201d The virtual currency\u2019s creators are using a cartoon image of a coin featuring the rapper in large sunglasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Kanye West has filed a New York lawsuit to stop production of \u201cCoinye West\u201d bitcoins that he says unjustly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}