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NFTs could have a generative art copyright problem

Most of the writing about the legal issues surrounding NFTs has been rightly concentrated on two topics, what rights does the buyer acquire when purchasing a token, and the issue of copyright infringement. But I have been thinking for a while that perhaps one of the most interesting legal subjects Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 3 monthsFebruary 19, 2022 ago
Blockchain

Whoever controls the DAO, controls the book: The strange tale of Jodorowsky’s Dune

Please gather around, and listen to this cautionary tale of schadenfreude and greed. This is not a tale for the faint of heart; it involves a cabal of crypto-enthusiasts involved in a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO), a failed film adaptation by Alejandro Jodorowsky of the classic book Dune , and Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 4 monthsJanuary 17, 2022 ago
NFTs

Platform is Law: The cautionary tale of stolen NFTs

It’s been another interesting day in the wilderness that is NFT-land. While many people (myself included) have spent a good part of the legal commentary on the NFT art market, the most valuable tokens can be found in collectibles, these usually take the shape of a stock character that is Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 7 monthsNovember 2, 2021 ago
NFTs

Can Sir Tim Berners-Lee sell an NFT of the WWW code?

We live in strange times. People post selfies getting an injection. A football tournament is being played with half-empty stadiums. Sotheby’s is selling digital assets and sneakers, and it will be selling an NFT of some code by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web. The auction Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 11 monthsJune 24, 2021 ago
NFTs

Creative Commons, commercial use, and NFTs

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Welcome to this week’s edition of “Weird NFT questions nobody had thought about before last month”. In this week’s edition, we have an interesting development in the interface between NFTs and Creative Commons licences. Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 yearMay 9, 2021 ago
Blockchain

A new twist in the NFT saga: Emily Ratajkowski re-appropriates Richard Prince

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | The digital ink has barely begun to dry from my previous forays into NFTs (first in the series here), but now we’re being presented with another interesting chapter in the NFT copyright saga, with Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 yearApril 24, 2021 ago
Blockchain

What do you buy when you buy an NFT?

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | On March 23, the technology sections of several news websites reported the same story. “Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet sells for $2.9m” said the BBC. “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sells first tweet as an Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 yearMarch 28, 2021 ago
Blockchain

Copyfraud and copyright infringement in NFTs

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Here we go again. I was seriously planning not to blog again about non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and instead concentrate on writing a full academic paper about the subject, but events have overtaken us, and Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 yearMarch 14, 2021 ago
Blockchain

Can copyright teach us anything about NFTs?

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | If you have been reading any technology and art news in the last week, you may have come across the newest hype in the world of distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies, and it is the Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 yearMarch 7, 2021 ago
Bitcoin

The stock market looks like the Bitcoin economy, and that’s not a good thing

I’ll get to the Bitcoin bit soon, but first let me explain what prompted this idea. Thanks to a Twitter thread by Cory Doctorow (archived here), I’ve been listening to this great interview with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis. In the video, Varoufakis explains the historic decoupling between stock markets and the Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 2 yearsAugust 23, 2020 ago

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