Ramses Ja, who picked up the rights to “WLM” last month along with radio co-host Quinton Ward, tells TMZ … they don’t want to sell the brand, but any potential buyer would have to find a $1 billion offer to get them to consider selling. Play TMZ.com video content For Ramses, the most important thing is to help organizations fighting for Black rights… so a $1 billion offer would make them reconsider their desire not to sell because they could do so much good with that money . Kanye has been stirring the pot with his “White Lives Matter” shirts for a month now, but he hasn’t been able to sell them in America because he doesn’t own the rights. As we reported … the trademark was obtained by an anonymous listener of Ramses and Quinton’s racial justice radio show, “Civic Cipher” … filing it the same day Ye wore the controversial look to Paris Fashion Week. The listener transferred ownership to Ramses and Quinton a few weeks ago … and covers the right to sell clothes with these words. Ramses says their lawyer will take legal action against Kanye or anyone else if the shirts are sold … and the $1 billion price tag seems to be an even bigger deterrent. Getty
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Kanye is no longer a billionaire after losing tons of business partners over his anti-Semitic rhetoric … and Ramses says Ye hasn’t contacted him about trademark rights. And, get this… in order for Ramses and Quinton to keep their trademark, they have to use it in commerce, they can’t just sit on it… and based on what Ramses tells us here, it looks like they’re making it up a unique way to rely on rights.
