The Growing Complexity of Commercial Rights Issues in NFTs

Partner Stuart Levi and associates Mana Ghaemmaghami and Gabriel Mohr discuss the thorny issue of determining which contractual rights attach to an NFT. As more NFT issuers offer commercialization rights in the underlying digital works, or ancillary benefits that may have important terms and conditions attached to them, solving the issue of how legal terms travel with an NFT will become increasingly important.