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Knievel, Kanye Dare to Make Peace
Call it a leap of faith.
Kanye West and Evel Knievel informed a federal judge on Tuesday that they're going to seek to resolve a trademark-infringement lawsuit over the rapper's video parody of the legendary 1970s daredevil via mediation.
In the suit, filed in December in U.S. District Court in Tampa, the 68-year-old stuntman claimed his iconic image was misappropriated by West in the five-and-a-half-minute clip for "Touch the Sky." The video features the hip-hop star dressed in a red, white and blue jumpsuit reminiscent of Knievel in his death-defying heyday.
Calling himself "Kanyevel," the Grammy-winning rapper boards a jet-powered rocket à la Knievel's ill-fated attempt to launch himself across Idaho's Snake River in 1974.
Long since retired to Floriday, the real-deal Knievel, whose real name is Robert Craig Knievel, has been in poor health, battling hepatitis C and residual pain from all those broken bones, as well as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung disease that has rendered him dependent on supplemental oxygen.
But he remains as feisty as ever. In court documents, Knievel claims his good-guy image was trashed by the "Gold Digger" emcee, whose "vulgar and racially charged" behavior in the music video runs "directly counter to Evel Knievel's long-established public persona, [is] utterly inconsistent with his toy products and appeal to children and harms the reputation of Evel Knievel trademark and the Evel Knievel costume."
There was no immediate comment from either side on Wednesday. But West's camp has previously taken the stance that the music video was satirical in nature and thus protected by the First Amendment.
By agreeing to go before a mediator, the brash entertainers are hoping to settle the case amicably and forego a potentially costly and PR-damaging trial.
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