坎耶•維斯特因違約被科技公司起訴

Kanye West and his Yeezy Apparel company have been sued by the company MyChannel, Inc., TMZ reports and court documents viewed by Pitchfork confirm. The company claims that after Kanye promised to invest $10 million in MyChannel, he walked away from the partnership and copied the company’s video commerce technology to drive sales of Sunday Service merchandise.

據TMZ（娛樂新聞網站）報道，坎耶·維斯特和他的Yeezy Apparel公司被MyChannel公司起訴了，Pitchfork查看的法庭文件也證實了這一消息。MyChannel公司稱坎耶原本承諾投資1千萬美元，卻終止了合作，還竊取了該公司的電子商務技術，提高了Sunday Service商品的銷量。

In the lawsuit, MyChannel’s team claim that at Kanye’s urging with the promise of a significant financial partnership, they relocated their headquarters from Pennsylvania to California and again to Illinois. The lawsuit also states the MyChannel team was never paid for $7 million in work they did for Yeezy Apparel. The lawsuit states that West rebranded the company as YZY Tech during business meetings with companies like Adidas and presented “ideas such as those of [MyChannel] as his own.” The lawsuit then says that after talks with West fell apart, MyChannel’s founders noticed that a copied version of their technology was utilized to sell merch in Kanye’s Sunday Service videos.

MyChannel的工作人員在訴訟中稱坎耶承諾要進行一項重要投資，應坎耶的要求，他們將公司總部從賓夕法尼亞州遷至加利福尼亞，後又遷至伊利諾伊州。訴訟中還指出MyChannel的工作團隊爲Yeezy Apparel所做的工作並未收到7百萬美元的酬勞。該訴訟稱坎耶在與阿迪達斯等公司召開商業會議時將其公司更名爲YZY Tech，並把“MyChannel的一些創意說成是自己的”。訴訟中還說和坎耶商討無果，MyChannel的創始人發現坎耶的Sunday Service公司的銷售視頻中用到了他們的一項技術。

MyChannel accuses West and Yeezy Apparel of breaching an oral partnership agreement, preventing MyChannel from earning millions, encouraging the company to invest millions, withholding a promised $10 million investment, and violating MyChannel’s non-disclosure agreement by copying their video e-commerce technology. The company is seeking a jury trial and damages.

MyChannel指控坎耶和Yeezy Apparel違反口頭合夥協議，使MyChannel少盈利數百萬美元，還要求MyChannel投資數百萬美元，但他們卻並未履行1千萬的投資承諾，同時竊取了他們的視頻電子商務技術，違反了MyChannel的保密協議。該公司要求陪審團審判並要求賠償。