Blockchain Week Panel on the Intellectual Property Implications of NFTs
Alana Kushnir features as a guest speaker in Melbourne during Australian Blockchain Week 2022.
Founder and Director of Guest Work Agency, Alana Kushnir will feature as a guest speaker during Blockchain Week 2022, hosted by Blockchain Australia.
NFTs AND IP: THE IMPLICATIONS
On Wednesday 23 March 2022, Alana will feature in an in-person panel discussion looking at NFTs and related intellectual property issues.
The discussion will be held at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne and Alana will be joined by the following panellists:
Dimitrios Salampasis (who will be moderating the discussion) - Director, Master of Financial Technologies and Lecturer of FinTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Swinburne School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship
Michael Bacina - Partner specialising in Digital Law, Piper Alderman
Susan Corbisiero - Director at Global Business & Talent Attraction Taskforce.
GUEST WORK AGENCY’S NFT EXPERIENCE
Guest Work Agency has been consulting and providing legal advice to numerous artists and NFT marketplaces on a variety of aspects, including acting for:
An established Australian artist on the strategy, commercial and legal aspects of their genesis NFT collection.
A high profile NFT artist on her sponsorship arrangement with a technology company.
The first NFT platform designed for the art world, Blockchain.art, on establishing best practice standards, including analysing how existing platforms communicate terms of use with their users, mapping the scope of copyright licensing rights for platforms and NFT purchases and comparing fee structures and royalty payment processes.
Droplt NFT platform on its website terms of use, licensing arrangement with artists and collector purchase agreement.
ABOUT BLOCKCHAIN WEEK
Blockchain Week encompasses 5 days of in-person, virtual and hybrid events centred around cryptocurrency and digital asset literacy. Featuring a dynamic mix of technology experts, academics and industry leaders, the program explores emerging technology in the blockchain field.
Guest Work Agency is a boutique art law and advisory firm based in Melbourne, but international in reach. It is the first dedicated art law practice in Australia, working with artists, collectors, galleries, arts organisations, art fairs and art tech start-ups.
For more information contact us at info@guestworkagency.art.