22 May, 2024 English High Court Ruling: Wright Lied About Being Inventor of Bitcoin By David Knight In a post dated 26 March 2024 we reported on the English High Court case concerning the identity of the inventor of Bitcoin who goes by...
21 May, 2024 Biden Administration Orders Wyoming Crypto Mining Company to Divest Ownership Over Ties to China By Hailey Lennon Last week, the Biden administration ordered a Wyoming cryptocurrency mining company, MineOne, to sell off its ownership due to ties to...
26 Mar, 2024 Who Is the Inventor of Bitcoin? We Do Not Know, We Do Now Know Who It Is Not. By David Knight The English High Court's intellectual property judgments are internationally well-regarded for their thoroughness and easy digestibility....
11 Mar, 2024 UK Government Consultation on Changes to Money Laundering Regulations – Impact for Cryptoasset Firms By Jessica Lee On 11 March 2024, the U.K. government published a consultation on improving the effectiveness of the Money Laundering Regulations...
07 Feb, 2024 Digital Deception: Navigating the Business Perils of Deepfakes By Daniel Healy In a recent alarming development reported by CNN[1], a multinational firm fell victim to an advanced scam using deepfake technology. The...
29 Jan, 2024 Building Your AI Model the Right Way – Part I By Morgan Jones By now, you have no doubt heard of artificial intelligence (AI). It offers seemingly countless opportunities for businesses to operate...
22 Jan, 2024 Uncle Sam to Taxpayers: Show Me the Receipts (For Certain Digital Assets) By Stephen Palley Daniel Healy Peter Farrell Isabelle Jacobs +1 more... Show less On Jan. 16, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Announcement 2024-4 (the announcement) in which it stated that digital assets are...
12 Sep, 2023 Top Takeaways From My Fireside Chat With SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce By Hailey Lennon I recently had the distinct pleasure and honor of hosting a fireside chat with U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commissioner Hester...
19 Jul, 2023 New Data Privacy Framework... It's a Problem of Motivation By Morgan Jones It’s been over a week since the European Union announced that it is granting the United States an adequacy decision in light of the new...
13 Jul, 2023 What Can the 'Real Slim Shady' Teach Us About Contracts in the AI Era? By Matthew Richardson At the turn of the century, one question, and one question alone was on everyone’s lips: Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? In...
27 Feb, 2023 Copyright Office Rules That AI-Generated Work Is Ineligible for Copyright: Lack of Predictable Output to Prompts Precludes Authorship By Harold Laidlaw The U.S. Copyright Office recently issued a decision, in a letter to counsel for artist Kristina Kashtanova, that the AI-generated images...
13 Feb, 2023 Jury Returns Verdict in MetaBirkin Case, Finding Infringement By Daniel Healy After roughly three days of deliberations, the jury in the Hermes International et al v. Rothschild found that the defendant had...
07 Feb, 2023 NFTs for the Sake of Art or Profit: What Will Matter for Trademark Infringement By Daniel Healy A current case thrusting NFTs (non-fungible tokens) into the forefront of trademark law involves a defendant arguing that his right to...
06 Oct, 2022 Decoding DAOs Amid CFTC Suit By Matthew Richardson Last month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed suit against blockchain company bZeroX, its founders, and Ooki DAO, a...
01 Jul, 2022 There's a New Crypto-Sheriff in Town: The EU Reaches Provisional Agreements on Regulating Crypto By Jessica Lee On 29 and 30 June, the EU reached provisional agreement on two areas of regulation of crypto assets to (1) extend anti-money laundering...
14 Jun, 2022 You’ve Been Served...Via Airdrop of an NFT By Jessica Lee On 2 June 2022, in the context of a cryptocurrency fraud claim, the New York Supreme Court approved service of a pre-trial restraining...