Apr 28, 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...
Mar 01, 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...
Feb 15, 2023 She Better Have My Crypto: Rihanna Streaming Royalties Offered to Limited NFT Holders By Zach Lewis Over one hundred million people watched Rihanna open the Super Bowl LVII halftime show with her multiplatinum hit Bitch Better Have My...
Jan 31, 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...
Jan 13, 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...
Dec 20, 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...
Nov 18, 2022 ICYDK: Music NFTs Also Generate Royalties By Saphya Council The newest case against American DJ 3LAU is very timely, with “music NFTs” becoming a growing trend in the music industry. “Music NFTs”...
Nov 03, 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...
Oct 03, 2022 Platforms Including Apple Make Moves in the NFT Space By Zach Lewis Apple has become the latest platform to embrace non-fungible tokens. As of September 2022, Apple, one of the largest tech companies in...
Sep 07, 2022 Fact: Most NFT Projects Convey Ownership of, and Valuable Intellectual Property Rights in, Digital Art By Jeremy Goldman This post was first published September 2nd, 2022 at http://mirror.xyz/jeremyg2k.eth. Recently, some folks in the NFT industry, including...
Jul 20, 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...
Jun 09, 2022 Copyright Office Sued For Refusing To Register AI-Made Work By Alycia S. Tulloch In my recent Artificial Intelligence and NFT post, I described the Copyright Office's refusal to provide protection for...
Jun 02, 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...
Apr 25, 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...
Mar 29, 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...
Mar 04, 2022 Copyright Office Ruling Exposes Artificial Intelligence and NFT Issues By Alycia S. Tulloch At what point, if any, can Artificial Intelligence be considered “human?” Who is responsible for the art that’s created by technology?...