20 Dec, 2022 Yuga Labs wins key victory in NFT infringement case against Ryder Ripps By Jeremy Goldman On December 16, 2022, the United District Court for the Central District of California handed NFT powerhouse Yuga Labs a decisive victory...
25 Apr, 2022 Smart Contracts, Human Errors: Software Bugs Cost Aku NFT Project a Jaw-Dropping $34M By Zach Lewis Jeremy Goldman For background information on the Aku NFT project, please see “Aku, the first NFT optioned for the big screen, offers a glimpse into the...
11 Mar, 2022 Winding Down The Wild West: What Biden’s Executive Order Means for Digital Assets By Zach Lewis Yesterday, President Biden signed a highly anticipated Executive Order on “Ensuring [the] Responsible Development of Digital Assets.”...
23 Feb, 2022 Are NBA Top Shot Moments Securities? Legal Arguments Take Shape in Class Action Against Dapper Labs That Could Rock the World of NFTs By Jeremy Goldman TLDR: In a putative class action lawsuit against Dapper Labs alleging that NBA Top Shot Moments are unregistered securities, the parties...
03 Feb, 2022 What Do You Get When You Cross an NFT with a Loot Box? By Frances Jensen According to Atari, they are known as “GFTs” or giftable NFTs appearing as gift-wrapped digital boxes. In celebration of the video game...
29 Jan, 2022 Lil Yachty hits music NFT platform Opulous with trademark and right of publicity suit By Jeremy Goldman On January 27, 2022, rapper Lil Yachty filed a complaint against Opulous and its founder in the U.S. District Court for the Central...
18 Nov, 2021 NFTs x Entertainment Litigation: Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Over Pulp Fiction NFT Drop By Jeremy Goldman Update: On December 9, 2021, Quentin Tarantino answered the complaint, with a scathing introduction that brandishes Miramax as "a shell...
21 Jun, 2021 A Legal Primer on Social Tokens By Hannah Taylor Finally wrapped your head around the Taco Bell NFT drop? Not so fast. Time to learn about “social tokens,” a rapidly-growing class of...
24 Apr, 2021 Aku, the first NFT optioned for the big screen, offers a glimpse into the future of IP and entertainment By Jeremy Goldman On April 16, 2021, The Hollywood Reporter announced that “Aku,” a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) art project and character created by former...
11 Mar, 2021 A Primer on NFTs and Intellectual Property By Jeremy Goldman Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), the latest cryptographic craze, have exploded into the world of media and entertainment, creating new markets...