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Drake and 21 Savage are blocke...Drake and 21 Savage are blocked from using Vogue covers to promote their album
The Silicon Review
10 November, 2022
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The Silicon Review Team
On Wednesday a U.S. judge blocked the rappers Drake and 21 Savage from using fake copies of Vogue magazine covers to promote their new album.
The duo was sued by the publisher of the magazine Conde Nast and after less than two days Jed Rakoff, the U.S. District Judge in Manhattan issued a temporary restraining order. Conde Nast said 21 Savage and Drake had no permission to create the counterfeit magazine, featuring them on the cover, to promote their album "Her Loss," or suggest support by Anna Wintour, a long term Vogue editor-in-chief.
Rakoff said Nast had demonstrated a "likelihood of success" on its false advertising claims and trademark infringement. He also had sufficient proof that consumers were confused and the publisher had been "irreparably harmed." The order on Wednesday requires 21 Savage, from Atlanta, and Drake, a Toronto native, to stop distributing the fake magazine and cover, including on social. They also cannot use the longtime editor-in-chief of the magazine Anna Wintour’s name or likeness.
Nast said that the defendants distributed the bogus Vogue issue with posters plastered on streets and buildings in major metropolitan areas. The publisher is seeking minimum $4 million in damages.
