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Kanye West wins Coinye West case by default
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 28 July 2014
So, a postscript to the short-lived Coinye West story from the start of the year, when a bunch of pranksters announced they were launching a new Bitcoin-style virtual currency that lightly mocked Mr Kanye West.
He promptly called in his lawyers, who issued a cease and desist, and, after a brief dabbling with an alternative name and logo, Coinye West went offline. But the litigation West’s lawyers filed continued.
And last week a judge ruled in West’s favour by default, because only four of the defendants listed on the lawsuit ever responded, and those all reached out-of-court settlements and were removed from the litigation. Quite what this now means for the ten other defendants who failed to make a case isn’t clear.