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Drake may not own the right to his OVO Owl Logo, and the city of Toronto is calling him out!

Drake posted this cool promotional billboard in his hometown of Toronto, but after a few days on the side of Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway, city officials are investigating his OVOXO owl.

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What many people know as Drake’s cool OVOXO owl is actually the city’s legal bird. Apparently, Drake didn’t ask the city permission to modify the city’s bird for his promotional use. 

The Star Reports

The billboard, located at Dufferin St. and Springhurst Ave., features the word “Toronto” in the distinctive style of the logo. And in the spot on the logo where the image of City Hall is located, to the left of the “Toronto,” the billboard substitutes the owl emblem of Drake’s personal brand, October’s Very Own.

“We would suggest,” city spokesperson Francine Antonio-Forte said in an email, “that the treatment of the word Toronto used on the billboard is very similar to the wordmark that forms part of the Toronto logo. The similarity of the wordmarks, in conjunction with other creative elements used for the billboard, may cause some confusion about the source of the information.”

“While the city is proud of its local and international talent, we have a general practice of reviewing and addressing reported or known cases related to the possible misuse of the Toronto logo,” she said.

Now, Toronto city officials are “reviewing the matter.”

GlobalGrind doubts if anything serious comes from this incident, and with Drake’s Take Care well on it’s way to platinum status, we wouldn’t worry about it.