Investment companies looking for the next big revenue stream have taken notice of the second-most popular social media platform in the world, namely YouTube. Jellysmack, a company that works with YouTube creators to help them expand onto new platforms, is reaching out to the owners of the most popular YouTube channels with offers to license…
NFT lawsuits involving content creators, celebrity endorsers, content distributors, businesses, and startups are becoming more frequent as the debate about who owns the underlying asset’s copyright and who has the authority to create an NFT becomes more contentious, and as digital assets grow in popularity and desirability. On one side of the argument, those who…
When ordinary, non-famous people—people like you and me—pay a tattoo artist for inking the visible parts of our bodies, we don’t typically generate much controversy or legal intrigue. The general consumer public most likely thinks the tattoo itself belongs to the person wearing it, since it’s part of their bodies. But when a professional athlete…
People who are creative at heart may have grown up hearing that they need to get a 9 to 5 job to pay the bills and that their artistic endeavors should be relegated to a hobby. The reality however is that with the right legal advice, it may in fact be possible to derive income…
The world of intellectual property is confusing to most. Individuals may not know that they have certain rights when it comes to the protection of the works they create. Those rights are referred to as copyright. The rights that are provided under copyright are both moral rights as well as economic rights. Moral rights pertain…