Legal Lab Live: Evolutions in Web3 Licensing
Image: Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Catharthis 2019-2020. Photo Credit: Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy of the artist and Serpentine.
In the third and final instalment of the Serpentine Legal Lab Live series, Serpentine Legal Lab Principal Investigator and Director of Guest Work Agency, Alana Kushnir and legal scholar, internet activist and artist Primavera de Filippi explored the legal and technical issues surrounding the licensing of NFTs.
In the session, Kushnir and de Filippi introduced the Token Bound Licence, a new copyright licence standard developed by de Filippi in collaboration with the Serpentine Legal Lab, the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3), and the COALA NFT taskforce - a community of researchers, technologists, artists and lawyers. Designed specifically with NFTs in mind, the Token Bound Licence allows for copyright permissions to be transferred along with an NFT.
For further information regarding the design and license terms, have a read of this paper developed by COALA and IC3.
ABOUT SERPENTINE LEGAL LAB
The Serpentine Legal Lab is part of the London-based Serpentine Galleries’ Arts Tech R&D Platform. It explores how the law can better support collaborations across art, science and technology. It is a space for investigating legal issues and prototyping accessible legal solutions for the art field. Alana Kushnir has been the Legal Lab’s Principle Investigator since its inception in 2019.
THE LEGAL LAB SERIES
The ‘Evolutions in Web3 Licensing’ Legal Lab Live session was streamed live on Twitch on the 27th of February, 2023. View it here. It was the third instalment of the series of free, live-streamed conversations on law and Web3 presented throughout 2022 and 2023. All sessions are available for viewing on the Serpentine Twitch page.
Image: Adapted from “Token Economy,” Copyleft 2020, Shermin Voshmgir: Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-SA. Featured in Legal Lab Live session 2.
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Guest Work Agency is a boutique art law and advisory firm based in Melbourne, but international in reach. It is Australia's first dedicated art law practice, working with artists, collectors, galleries, arts organisations, art fairs and art tech start-ups.
For more information, contact us at info@guestworkagency.art