Posted on 12/12/2006 10:14:03 AM PST by 300magnum
51 minutes ago
TAMPA, Fla. - Evel Knievel has sued Kanye West, taking issue with a video in which the rapper takes on the persona of "Evel Kanyevel" and jumps a motorcycle over a canyon.
Knievel, whose real name is Robert Craig Knievel, filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday claiming infringement on his trademark name and likeness. He also claims the "vulgar and offensive" images depicted in the video damage his reputation.
"That video that Kanye West put out is the most worthless piece of crap I've ever seen in my life, and he uses my image to catapult himself on the public," the 68-year-old daredevil said Tuesday.
West, 28, couldn't immediately be reached for comment Tuesday. The lawsuit asks for damages and seeks to halt distribution of the video.
In the video for the song "Touch the Sky," West dons the familiar Knievel star-studded jumpsuit and jumps a canyon in a vehicle "visually indistinguishable" from the Skycycle that Knievel used when he attempted to jump Idaho's Snake River Canyon in 1974, the lawsuit said.
Knievel, who lives in Clearwater, has been in poor health in recent years.
Kanye West doesn't care about daredevils.
Obviously, Evel doesn't care about black people. /s
I always liked him when he did his jumps on Limey bikes.
LOL...I love it. Kanye West is a complete moron. I wouldn't mess with Kneival, even if he is in poor health. The man has no fear. I hope he wipes the floor legally with Kanye.
Sorry, Evel, parody is protected speech. Quit acting like a golddigger - Kanye sure won't be a broke ______ because of this suit... : )
Sadly, that alone is not actionable.
wtf happened to my kane pic?
And check out what is says in the black bars. FU FR. Dang, some liberal website has an attitude.
Looks like someone did an image swap at the source. It wasn't us.
The website is strangecosmos.com. Guess they dont like us. Waaaaaaa. LOL~
thank you.
Is that the first time that image has shown up here?
Same thing happened to me a few weeks back, I had been using an image for awhile, I guess somebody noticed that FR was pulling the image and decided to replace it with a "Freepers Suck" image. It happens.
The above is the URL for the image you posted. Sometimes when remote linking the host of that image will switch the image if they don't like someone using their image. So when you posted the image from that site using their bandwidth, (Their site has to serve the picture). When in doubt about a site's policy it is best to not remote link images.
If that happened to some noob, he'd probably get the ZOT. ;-)
Sour grapes on their part.
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