Travis Scott has filed a $100 million lawsuit towards an organization he claims didn’t ship a customized stage set for his 2023 “Utopia” tour and later exploited his identify and likeness with out authorization.
The chart-topping rapper slapped Present Movement Engineering with the lawsuit, alleging the Wyoming-based firm induced irreparable hurt to Scott’s model and led to substantial monetary losses.
Scott and his firm, XX World, accuse Present Movement of breaching their settlement to construct an elaborate stage set for the “Utopia” tour, which Scott had commissioned for over $1.5 million.
Based on paperwork obtained by AllHipHop, the corporate didn’t assemble the set for inspection, a contractual obligation required earlier than remaining fee.
When Scott’s workforce withheld additional funds, Present Movement reportedly refused to launch the set, rendering it unusable for the tour.
The go well with additional alleges that Present Movement didn’t ship and profited from Scott’s model by showcasing his identify, likeness, and prior tour performances on its web site.
The corporate reportedly created a web page that includes images and movies of Travis Scott from earlier excursions, together with Rolling Loud and Made in America, alongside references to the “Utopia” venture.
Present Movement’s web site additionally displayed copyrighted designs from the “Utopia” stage with out permission from XX World.
Scott claims these actions have been supposed to spice up the corporate’s status and appeal to shoppers underneath false pretenses.
“The aforementioned acts, amongst others…have been finished deliberately or with a acutely aware disregard of [Scott’s] rights, and with the intent to vex, injure or annoy [Scott] equivalent to to represent oppression, fraud, or malice, thus entitling [Scott] to exemplary and punitive damages in an quantity acceptable to punish or set an instance of Defendants, and every of them, and to discourage such conduct sooner or later,” Travis Scott’s lawyer Edwin F. McPherson stated.
The rapper desires $5 million in direct losses from the copyright infringement and an estimated $10 million in earnings Present Movement allegedly earned from advertising and marketing supplies that includes the designs.
He additionally desires $100 million for violating his proper of publicity and misappropriation of his identify and likeness.
