A leading legal scholar offers a compelling new theory to explain the meteoric rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and their impact on art, business, entertainment, and society, and explains how they are revolutionizing our understanding of ownership. If you buy an NFT, do you own anything Critics say no. Then why are people spending so much money to own them--to the tune of $27 billion in 2021 And why are big businesses and venture capital firms investing hundreds of millions to develop NFTs for people's use in the metaverse, a purely imaginary world In Creators Take Control, Edward Lee offers a compelling new theory he calls "Tokenism" that answers these perplexing questions. Using vivid examples, Lee lucidly explains how NFTs operate--and how they fundamentally change our understanding of ownership. Tokenism is an artistic, cultural, and technological movement that creates value in a new kind of ownership of a new type of property--symbolized by a virtual token--through a process of technological abstraction and artificial scarcity effectuated by NFTs. Ownership becomes virtual. What Cubism did in radically changing the twentieth-century perspective of creating and viewing art through cubes, Tokenism does today in altering our perspective of owning art and other things through tokens. Both movements radically reimagine what's possible. Creators and businesses have seized upon this profound transformation. In a short time, they have developed a new market for digital art, important new rights for creators, innovative business models based on decentralized collaboration, and a new type of interactive ownership that enables identity, community, and patronage through NFTs. These innovations are just the start of revolutionary changes to society. Lee shows how NFTs create a new form of decentralized intellectual property, or De-IP. Comparable to the movement to decentralized finance (DeFi), De-IP empowers creators to take control of their artistic productions and livelihood. Lee's intellectual tour de force is filled with practical insights--and hope--for fostering creativity and a Virtual Renaissance for the ages.

Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, and Entertainment

Business & Money

Lee, Edward

Economics

Harper Business

Music of the people: A study of popular music in Great Britain

Arts & Photography

Music

Barrie Jenkins

This new international intellectual property casebook covers, in a very accessible and student friendly format, all the major international treaties and today's cutting edge topics, such as biopiracy and traditional knowledge, commercial piracy, access to medicines, database protection, GIs, and patents for business methods and computer software. 
Among its features, the casebook: 
Is suitable for students with all levels of background in intellectual property (IP) law, including students who have had no prior course in IP Focuses on the key international IP treaties and conventions, such as TRIPs Includes substantial amounts of introductory and explanatory text written by the case book authors for each topic covered Examines the growing importance of intellectual property in economic development and international business Devotes substantial coverage to issues important to developing and non-Western countries Includes cases, materials, and excerpts from authors originating from the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, Canada, and Latin America Contains much practical knowledge essential for students who wish to practice in IP, such as securing trademarks under the Madrid Protocol and patents under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and enforcing IP rights internationally.

International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, And Materials

Chow, Daniel C.K.

Intellectual Property

West Academic

This Supplement accompanies Chow and Lee's International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, and Materials.

Documents Supplement to Accompany International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, And Materials

Foreign & International Law

Chow and Lee’s International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, and Materials addresses the latest developments in U.S., EU, and WTO law. It contains numerous new cases, replacing older ones. The text remains concise and retains the features of the first edition that made it popular: clear expositions of the law and many short, practical, and straightforward problems that liven class discussions and draw home the lessons to the students.

International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases and Materials, 2d (American Casebook Series)

Chow, Daniel

West Academic Publishing

Chow and Lee’s Documents Supplement to International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, and Materials has been thoroughly updated and accompanies Chow and Lee’s International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, and Materials.

Documents Supplement to International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases and Materials, 2d (American Casebook Series)

This casebook provides a comprehensive survey of design protection, one of the hottest fields of intellectual property. The casebook is user-friendly and accessible to students of any experience level, including students with no prior knowledge of intellectual property. The casebook takes a practical approach to the study of design protection by including numerous real-world problems for the students to answer as they study the key cases and laws in the casebook. Students are introduced to the key concepts of U.S. design patent law, trademark law, and copyright law that relate to the protection of designs. In addition, the casebook compares the U.S. approach with the popular Community design right of the European Union and also introduces the students to the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs. Several exam-style questions are included in the final chapter for the students to test their knowledge of the materials.

The Law of Design: Design Patents, Trademarks, & Copyright, Problems, Cases, and Materials (American Casebook Series)

SCHWARTZ, DAVID

McKenna, Mark

Explores the changing role played by folk, popular, and religious music, dancing, and music hall entertainment in the life of the British working and middle classes before the twentieth century.

Folksong and Music Hall (Routledge popular music)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Routledge& Kegan Paul

A guidebook that explores the diversity of London's musical heritage. Arranged as a series of walks around places of classical music interest in the capital, the book offers a wide range of practical information (such as opening times, box office details), as well as a series of anecdotes relating to London's musical life, past and present. For those intrigued to know why Mendelssohn was forced to write out from memory the whole of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" before its British Premiere, or which German musician living in London persuaded Haydn to visit, this is an appropriate companion.

Musical London

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

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Books by Lee, Edward

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Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, and Entertainment

Music of the people: A study of popular music in Great Britain

International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, And Materials

Documents Supplement to Accompany International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, And Materials

International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases and Materials, 2d (American Casebook Series)

Documents Supplement to International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases and Materials, 2d (American Casebook Series)

The Law of Design: Design Patents, Trademarks, & Copyright, Problems, Cases, and Materials (American Casebook Series)

Folksong and Music Hall (Routledge popular music)

Musical London

Musical London