28 Apr, 2023 OKCoin Ruling Highlights Importance of Carefully Drafting Consumer Arbitration Clauses and Differences Between AAA and JAMS By Zach Lewis Jeremy Goldman Online terms often govern the relationship between companies and their customers or end-users. At least, that’s what they’re intended to...
01 Mar, 2023 The Dawn of a New Era: U.S. Copyright Office Registers Comic Book Featuring AI-Generated Images By Zach Lewis The current boom in artificial intelligence (AI), including programs like DALL-E and ChatGPT, has sparked widespread conversation and...
31 Jan, 2023 Reflections on BAYC’s revolutionary NFT license By Jeremy Goldman Yuga Labs was one of the first NFT projects to popularize issuing an IP license that grants commercial rights to NFT holders – first with...
13 Jan, 2023 Stand by for a key decision on whether NFTs are securities... By Jeremy Goldman We promised to keep you posted on developments in Friel v. Dapper Labs, a case that could decide whether NFTs -- in particular, Dapper...
03 Nov, 2022 Case Update: NFT “Insider Trading” Case Allowed to Proceed Against Former OpenSea Employee By Zach Lewis Jeremy Goldman On October 21, 2022, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order denying a former OpenSea...
20 Jul, 2022 Service of process via NFT airdrop? So cool! But I have questions… By Jeremy Goldman I’ve now seen two instances of courts authorizing service of legal process though the delivery—or “airdropping”—of non-fungible tokens...
02 Jun, 2022 Former OpenSea Employee Arrested Over NFT Trades: What This Means For Your NFT Project By Zach Lewis Jeremy Goldman Within months of bringing charges against two twenty-year-olds in connection with an NFT “rug pull,” the Department of Justice has...
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...
29 Mar, 2022 Arrests for NFT "Rug Pull" Highlight Legal Risks for Creators By Jeremy Goldman Zach Lewis On the heels of President Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, the Department of Justice...
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...