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Announcing our new sister site: “Nou AI Art” for all the latest on AI art and ChatGPT text-to-image generators

By: nftjedi April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

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We are so happy to announce the launch of our new sister site: Nou AI Art.

Nou AI Art is an online magazine devoted to the latest news and developments related to AI Art. We cover this fast-growing new art form, including artworks produced from Chat-GPT based text-to-image generators, Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion. We will also discuss the controversies over AI Art, including human job displacement, potential copyright infringement, eligibility for copyrights, and whether it should be considered an “art.”

Check it out!

Our URL is NouAI.art.

Our Substack newsletter is https://nouaiart.substack.com/.

NFTs are dead. Wait, Nakamigos are booming.

By: nftjedi April 3, 2023April 3, 2023

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The crypto winter has been frigid. Most NFT projects–outside of the clear market leader Yuga Labs, which continues to build the Otherside–are trying to weather the storm of the economic downturn.

But just when you think you have a handle on the NFT market, it can change in a blink of an eye.

The Nakamigos projects–pixelated characters reminiscent of the CryptoPunks, but in a kind of miniature sized body–are all the rage.

AI artist Claire Silver, Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter discuss copyrightability of AI art on NPR with Scott Detrow

By: nftjedi April 2, 2023April 2, 2023

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“I would say to please speak with the people who are making these systems – Emad of Stability AI is a good example – to understand exactly how they work and exactly the role of data in the process, and understand that we’re at the point where AI can read images from MRI brain scans and reinterpret them as similar images. I don’t see how traditional copyright will be able to hold up in the coming decade. With technology like that, I think you need to rethink how we look at influence, how we look at authorship.”

-Claire Silver on authorship

Deji Art Museum in China acquires Beeple’s new work “S.2122”

By: nftjedi April 1, 2023

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“I strongly believe artworks like this, that blend the physical and digital world represent a massive opportunity to draw new people into to what we do and get them to see the true potential of these mediums…”
-Beeple

Unboxing my book Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, & Entertainment. (Video – sound on)

By: nftjedi March 22, 2023March 22, 2023

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Just received my advance copies of my book Creators Take Control from my publisher Harper Business! This book was a true labor of love. And by labor, I mean a HUGE amount of work.

I shot this video of me unboxing the first shipment of copies–first editions!–of Creators Take Control.

VIDEO of THE 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORIC SALE: Beeple Studios opens to great fanfare — is the future of art digital?

By: nftjedi March 12, 2023March 13, 2023

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So is the future of art digital? In my book, yes! Literally. In my forthcoming book, Creators Take Control, I explain the rise of digital art, generative art, and AI art, including Beeple’s historic sale on Mar. 11, 2021.

Download Complaint PDF in Dufoe v. DraftKings, No. 1:23-cv-10524

By: nftjedi March 10, 2023March 10, 2023

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Download the free PDF of the Complaint below.

Securities class action filed v. DraftKings, adding to mounting cases + risk for NFTs and NFT marketplaces

By: nftjedi March 10, 2023March 10, 2023

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Yesterday, a proposed class action was filed against DraftKings for its sport-related NFTs sold on its marketplace. The case adds to the mounting litigation over NFTs, platform tokens and staking, and cryptocurrency. Although there hasn’t been a final decision in any of these cases, the signs are ominous.

Quick preview of Creators Take Control, new book by Edward Lee published by Harper Business

By: nftjedi March 9, 2023

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You can now preview my book CREATORS TAKE CONTROL on Amazon and see if you are in it!

In response to Blur question, Greg Solano, Yuga Labs/BAYC co-founder, criticizes marketplaces in “a race to the bottom … with less and less of them honoring creator royalties”

By: nftjedi March 8, 2023

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“WE FIND IT PROBLEMATIC THAT THERE’S A RACE TO THE BOTTOM between different marketplaces … with less and less of them honoring creator royalties.” – Greg Solano