{"id":4409,"date":"2021-07-07T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2021-07-07T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:30:22","slug":"knockoff-kanye-west-sues-walmart-over-foam-yeezy-lookalikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/knockoff-kanye-west-sues-walmart-over-foam-yeezy-lookalikes\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOCKOFF: Kanye West Sues Walmart Over Foam Yeezy Lookalikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KNOCKOFF. Kanye West is suing Walmart for selling knockoff Yeezy Foam Runners.\u00a0Walmart shoes were selling for about $20 to $30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanye-west-sues-walmart-fake-yeezy-foam-runner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4411\" src=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanye-west-sues-walmart-fake-yeezy-foam-runner-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanye-west-sues-walmart-fake-yeezy-foam-runner-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanye-west-sues-walmart-fake-yeezy-foam-runner-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanye-west-sues-walmart-fake-yeezy-foam-runner-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanye-west-sues-walmart-fake-yeezy-foam-runner.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kanye has claimed in his lawsuit that Walmart has been profiting from his name by selling foam sliders that look &#8220;virtually indistinguishable&#8221; from his Yeezy&#8217;s. He is suing to have the shoes removed from Walmart&#8217;s site and for monetary damages. Kanye further claims in his lawsuit that\u00a0the shoes caught their attention when posts on social-media sites started taking off by advertising that people could buy the shoes on Walmart&#8217;s website as &#8220;budget Yeezys.&#8221; Walmart has since then taken the shoes off its website.<\/p>\n<p>Will Kanye win this lawsuit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KNOCKOFF. Kanye West is suing Walmart for selling knockoff Yeezy Foam Runners.\u00a0Walmart shoes were selling for about $20 to $30.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,623,609,80],"tags":[1708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}