Yuga Labs Claims Its Bored Apes Have Copyright, Even if It Never Filed for Protection

Yuga Labs Claims Its Bored Apes Have Copyright, Even if It Never Filed for Protection Yuga Labs, the company behind the toilet-obsessed Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, is in a strange space regarding its intellectual property. As first reported by ARTnews, new documents filed by Yuga Labs in an ongoing lawsuit goes out of its way to avoid the topic of whether its infamous Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs actually have copyright. Last year, Yuga Labs filed a lawsuit over trademark infringement against Los Angeles conceptual artist Ryder Ripps. The company alleged Ripps had been "trolling" the company by creating…