A human spends three weeks sweating over a digital canvas. Every single brushstroke is manual. You open Midjourney. You type “neon cyber dog eating pizza.” Four seconds later, you get a masterpiece. Are you the creator? Do you actually own that image? Right now, copyright law is having a massive panic attack trying to answer…
A human spends three weeks sweating over a digital canvas. Every single brushstroke is manual. You open Midjourney. You type “neon cyber dog eating pizza.” Four seconds later, you get a masterpiece. Are you the creator? Do you actually own that image? Right now, copyright law is having a massive panic attack trying to answer…
You drop a bag of crypto on an NFT. Do you automatically own the copyright to the image? Under U.S. law, the answer is a massive, resounding no. A recent joint study by the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) looked deep into this exact mess. They found that consumers…
You just bought a piece of digital art. The payment cleared. You grabbed the file. Maybe a crypto token hit your wallet. Cool. But what did you actually just buy? Sounds like a dumb question, right? You bought the art. Done. Except, digital ownership is a massive headache. Buy a physical painting, you get canvas….
In July 2022, a man stood by a pool in Miami, pulled a piece of paper from a martini glass, and lit it on fire. But this wasn’t just a random cocktail napkin. It was a drawing claimed to be an original work by the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The stunt was designed to…