the latest news in NFTs + crypto art + web3
Top 10 Web3 NFT Moments in 2022 10. The crypto winter decimates NFT sales + crypto 9. Yuga Labs secures $450M seed funding led by a16z 8. Reddit launches 5m NFTs for avatars for users 7. Terra LUNA implodes, causing Cryptocurrency Contagion 6. Yuga Labs sues Ryder Ripps; Ryder Ripps sues Yuga Labs 5. Upstart…
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Court holds Ripps’ use of Bored Apes TMs has no artistic relevance, is explicitly misleading, and is not protected under the Rogers test Court holds that Ripps’ anti-SLAPP motion fails because Yuga’s trademark lawsuit does not “arise out of Defendants’ attempts to publicize and criticize Plaintiff’s purported use of racist, neo-Nazi, or alt-right dog whistles”…
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We took a closer look at the Complaint against Bored Ape creator Yuga Labs, Moonpay, et al. focusing on the celebrities. Even though the Complaint is 95 pages long, it’s not that detailed about many of the celebrities. Here are the main allegations against the celebrities: (1) All celebs are alleged to have received Bored…
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As reported yesterday, Yuga Labs published the new 2022 license for owners of CryptoPunks, the now legendary NFT collection whose intellectual property Yuga Labs acquired from Larva Labs earlier this year. We reviewed the terms of the CryptoPunks 2022 license in a prior post, click here. Given the CryptoPunks position as perhaps the most prestigious…
Read MoreSnoop Dogg is teaming up with Food Fighters Universe, a startup co-founded by Andy Nguyen, Kevin Seo and Phillip Huynh, to open a new dessert restaurant called Dr. Bombay’s Sweet Exploration. Sounds sweet! [More from Decrypt] Dr. Bombay is the name of his Bored Ape #6723. There’s already a burger restaurant Bored and Hungry, started…
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As I grade law school exams, I came across a complicated scenario IRL that would make for an excellent law school exam. The actor Seth Green revealed a trailer for his upcoming series White Horse Tavern, which uses one of the Bored Ape characters (#8398) from the NFTs he owns. According to Buzzfeed (see below),…
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Elon Musk just changed his profile pic to Bored Apes–a whole montage of them. This comes after he bought Twitter. Did Musk see the potential in not only Bored Apes, but the community known as NFT Twitter (of which we are a part!). Musk hasn’t shown much interest in NFTs, other than a Feb. 26…
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