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Protecting Data in the Metaverse: Do Avatars Dream of Privacy?

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The metaverse will bring many benefits, but it is also likely to multiply and compound privacy issues, particularly given its global nature. With the advent of the commercial internet in the 1990s, organizations were...more

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All About Web3: The Regulatory Outlook for Cryptocurrency

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Cryptocurrency continues to dominate the headlines, from starting the year at a high with major TV ads to questions in recent weeks about the stability of the market. In this episode of In the Public Interest, co-host and...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Will Web 3.0 Transform the Use of Data?

The internet is buzzing with content from market and technology analysts explaining the evolution of the internet from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0, as well as providing insights into how Web 3.0 may impact the collection, control, and...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - May 2022: Web3 Inspires Spotify to Try NFTs

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse are the latest buzzwords online, including in the legal industry. But have you heard about Web3? Web3 is a tech buzzword for a blockchain-powered phase of the internet (different...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - May 2022

Thank you for reading the May 2022 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we discuss Spotify's exploration into NFTs, two new USPTO policies with practical implications for trademark applicants...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Ongoing Program] The World Wide Web of Risk: Protecting Yourself in the Metaverse - May 5th, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm PT

Join an interdisciplinary panel of Manatt professionals for the third of a three-part webinar series on the metaverse and the dawn of the Web3 era. While Parts One and Two of our series focused on the blockchain basics and...more

Lewis Roca

April 19 Sunrise Deadline to Register Brands in Alternative Root Domains Such As (dot)NFT

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A new internet frontier is opening, one that is not associated with or controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and shares little in common with the more well-known and used TLDs such as...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Ongoing Program] What Is Web3?: Essentials of the Blockchain-based Internet Revolution - March 3rd, 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET

With the recent explosion of blockchain technology and major companies pivoting their business models to realize the promise of a metaverse, tech innovators, entertainment and sports icons, and venture capitalists alike are...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

News of Note for the Internet-Minded – The Virtual Big Bang of NFTs and the Metaverse

This metaverse-meets-NFTs themed edition of News of Note includes travel, food and shoes, a big box retailer entering the NFT arena, and the purchase of (a film adaptation of) a sci-fi classic. Oh, and there’s also the...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

In the Coming ‘Metaverse’, There May Be Excitement but There Certainly Will Be Legal Issues

The concept of the “metaverse” has garnered much press coverage of late, addressing such topics as the new appetite for metaverse investment opportunities, a recent virtual land boom, or just the promise of it all, where...more

Troutman Pepper

Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Internet 3.0: Decentralize Everything

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Gregory J. Nowak, a partner and practice leader for hedge funds in Pepper Hamilton’s Private Fund Services Practice Group, hosts a series of candid, interactive webinar discussions for West LegalEdcenter on what is going on...more

Jones Day

Jones Day Presents: What General Counsel Need to Know about Blockchain

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In the next in a continuing series of blockchain videos, partner Harriet Territt describes the issues that general counsel should consider regarding blockchain, including how it will be deployed in a particular business,...more

Hogan Lovells

Three Cyberspace Courts now online and open for business

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On 9 August and 28 September 2018, the new Cyberspace Courts in Beijing and Guangzhou were officially opened. These new specialised courts, along with their equivalent one that was formed in Hangzhou in August 2017, are meant...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

All Bets are On! Gambling and Video Games - How the Evolution of Games Has Led to a Rise in Gambling Concerns

Recently, there has been a frenzy of legal activity with U.S. gambling laws and the number of gambling-related legal issues with video games. U.S. gambling laws have changed more in the past few years than they have in a long...more

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How Will the Net Neutrality Repeal Impact Blockchain

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On December 14, 2017, the FCC voted in a 3-2 party-line vote to end net neutrality despite overwhelming bipartisan and public support for it. Net neutrality requires internet service providers (ISPs) like Verizon and Comcast...more

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Blockchain trending in domain name registrations

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Domain name registrations often reflect current trends and it is thus not surprising that a large number of recent second-level domain name registrations under .COM and .NET include terminology relating to blockchain....more

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What blockchain can learn from the net neutrality debate: antitrust and regulatory aspects of “paid prioritization” for a nascent...

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First come, first served. That’s not the principle behind the clearance of Bitcoin transactions. Equally for other blockchain technology networks, the relevant factor to get a transaction on the next available block is not...more

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