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July 31st, 2023
Future or Fad: Will Headless Brands Rewrite the Book on Branding?
Blockchain Technology Group Co-Chair Jeremy S. Goldman, is quoted in the article, “Future or Fad: Will Headless Brands Rewrite the Book on Branding?” published by Culture3. The article discusses the rising popularity of “headless brands” in the blockchain community and the value proposition created from shared ownership of IP. Jeremy is quoted saying, “NFT IP assets can inspire waves of creativity ‘to create new, expressive works’ which are nonetheless tied more obviously to the original IP.” He adds that with comic books, where at the conferences “in between the juggernauts of official franchises are aisles and aisles of fan fiction, none of which is licensed, but they are embraced because they drive ticket sales for the real collections.”
In conclusion, Jeremy notes that by making it possible to license unofficial upstarts with official licensors at scale, NFTs can grow a brand’s entire pie, as well as making it easy for revenue from that fan fiction to be shared with the original franchise.
Read the full article here.
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Advertising Opt Outs Drive New Privacy Strategies in 2025
Cybersecurity Law Report quotes Daniel M. Goldberg in an article on how the advertising industry is facing greater scrutiny from state AGs as more people opt out of targeted ads. The report covers Google’s backtracking on plans to block third-parties’ tracking cookies amidst adtech’s adoption of cookieless personal identifiers; upcoming legal decisions; and compliance areas that adtech should consider in the coming year. View article. (Behind paywall. Contact author Matt Fleischer-Black for complimentary PDF.)
December 18 2024
The Biggest Copyright Decisions of 2024
Law360 quotes Jacqueline Charlesworth on the Hachette Book Group Inc. v. Internet Archive lawsuit, in which the Second Circuit affirmed a Manhattan federal judge’s ruling that a nonprofit’s scanning books to a create e-books was not fair use. (Behind paywall) View Article
December 17 2024
Deciphering the New CPPA Proposed Regulations for Data Brokers
Cybersecurity Law Report quotes Daniel M. Goldberg on the CPPA's proposed regulations that expand upon and clarify key provisions of the Delete Act, broadening the universe of what entities constitute a data broker. (Behind paywall) View Article
December 12 2024