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June 8th, 2022
Seth Green’s Stolen ‘Bored Ape’ Muddles NFT Legal Ownership
Blockchain Technology Practice Group Co-Chair Jeremy S. Goldman is quoted in the article, “Seth Green’s Stolen ‘Bored Ape’ Muddles NFT Legal Ownership” published by Bloomberg Law. The article details the theft of actor Seth Green’s “Bored Ape” non-fungible token which sparked a debate around copyright and ownership of the popular digital assets, Bored Ape Yacht Club and their licensing structure. Jeremy is quoted saying, “That’s what was kind of amazing about the Bored Ape Yacht Club is they gave these very valuable assets. They gave the community the rights to go and make stuff and to license it for various purposes, wherever they wanted.”
Jeremy says posing a hypothetical, “Let’s say it’s not even stolen, Seth sells the ape to somebody else, what happens to that sublicense? The Yuga Labs license is silent as to what happens in that situation. He adds, “There’s kind of no way to say that when Seth sells that or it gets stolen from him, does the next person take it subject to whatever licenses had been entered before.”
Read the full article here.
Other Quoted
4 Takeaways From 1st Opinion on AI Training and Fair Use
Law 360 quotes Jacqueline Charlesworth on the Third Circuit ruling granting summary judgment to Thomson Reuters, in a case alleging tech startup ROSS Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool. Ms. Charlesworth stated the ruling is significant because many AI companies are asserting transformative use, in interpreting The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case. (Behind paywall) View Article
February 13 2025
Thomson Reuters Prevails in Copyright Battle with AI Company
MediaDailyNews quotes Jeremy S. Goldman on the federal court decision that Ross Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters’ copyright by training its services using Westlaw summaries, known as “headnotes.” Mr. Goldman states the ruling could impact lawsuits by other copyright owners over the use of their material to develop AI. However, he distinguishes some of the high-profile cases such as those against OpenAI in training ChatGPT. He notes OpenAI argues it did not copy material to compete with authors and publishers but to create its language model and technology. View Article
February 12 2025
What a Character
Boston College Law School Magazine quotes Jeffrey A. Greenberg in a profile of Michael Schiffer, founder of S2 Advertising Law, and the former legal director at Twitter. The article titled "What a Character" notes that Mr. Greenberg was on the hiring committee that recruited Mr. Schiffer to join Frankfurt Kurnit’s Advertising group, where he worked for more than 10 years. View Article
February 11 2025
