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Kanye West’s clothing company, Yeezy, is suing one of its summer interns for posting confidential photos on Instagram – and is trying to enforce a half-million-dollar damages clause.
The intern, Ryan Inwards, signed a confidentiality agreement that contained a $ 500,000 provision for liquidated damages, according to a complaint filed on Friday at the LA County Superior Court. These provisions impose an initial price on contractual violations in an effort to further ensure compliance.
The NDAs prohibit the disclosure or dissemination of confidential information on social media, and Yeezy says that Inwards shared non-public images on Instagram and did not remove them, even after sending several cease and desist letters. (An Instagram account with the same name now has no posts.)
Yeezy is suing Inwards for breach of contract and conversion, and asks for $ 500,000 in damages, plus punitive damages, because the company believes he is acting maliciously. It is also seeking an injunction requiring him to deliver the images and be banned from similar posts in the future.