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Dec 13 15 tweets 22 min read
2022 was a rebirth, a return to life. 🧵

There was not a single day in 2021 - not one - where I could have in my wildest dreams imagined it.

I think about that a lot. And I always will. ❤️ 🙌
And a few really great loving sweet fun dogs … kept it going in 2022. 🐶 #Cliff #Biscuit ImageImage
2022 was a year of amazing art. And artists. @sabet @DrainedEye among them ImageImageImageImage
2022 was a year of travels. Unbelievably privileged to be able to “Be. See. Do” like this.

New Orleans. Barcelona. Forrestburgh. Philadelphia. London. Spring Lake. Woodstock. San Francisco. Las Vegas. San Francisco again. Japan. Rhinebeck. Chicago. Mexico. Storrs. Syracuse. ImageImageImage
We hosted a family Thanksgiving at our house in 2022. We fried another Turkey. Safely.

We. Ate. So. Much. Good. Food.

Sometimes we took pictures of it. ImageImageImage
And 2022 was a year of getting to take in some great baseball games, @Yankees @TrentonThunder, alongside my son, @jwkasdan (and we did the NBA Draft, Knicks, Giants too!).

And of getting to see my two awesome kids, Jacob and and Lauren both do their thing in college. 😮 ImageImage
2022 was a year of new adventures.

I met @neilhimself & he sent me the most perfect answers to three questions I asked him (article to come!)

I saw @brandicarlile in concert at Woodstock (Bethel Woods) & she sang the perfect version of Woodstock

Saw @respektor at Carnegie! 🎶 Image
2022 was year of writing.

About sports, masculinity, social justice, mental health, law, technology, IP. AI, NFTs, metaverse.

Essays. Articles. Book chapters. Poems. Posts. Tweets.
@TheNLJ @lawdotcom @NYLawJournal @BLaw @GoodMenProject @PracticalLawUS @Storytwiction @Law360
2022 was a year of speaking. An outpouring of ideas and connections and excitement.

At conferences. At companies. At law schools. At high schools. In Zoom boxes. On podcasts.
@_NFT_VIP @PulseCon_ @LESUSACanada @NYLawSchool @UConnLaw @nyulaw @HighgateSchool @Lawline @UCBerkeley ImageImageImageImage
2022 was a year of building and of new ventures.

I started a new business. And a new practice area. And a new podcast. And I started advising several other businesses. I taught. I leaned. I joined teams. Good ones: ImageImage
In the words of Taylor Swift, “We’re happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time…I’m feeling ‘22”:



I am so so grateful for it all.

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Dec 12
Rumblings today indicate that the SCOTUS may be considering granting cert. on the Rap Genius vs. Google case on whether copyright law preempts terms of service:

Here is an article: news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/google-…
Or, if you prefer, here is a parody song I wrote called "Preemption Song"
Preemption Song is sung to the tune of Bob Marley's Redemption Song):
#SCOTUS #termsofservice #copyright #preemption #Google #RapGenius
[Verse 1]
New pirates, yes, they rob I
Say I of the Google scripts
Scraping music like a spy
Took Rap Genius lyrics
But my brief was made strong
By the T-O-S declaration
We contract with this generation
Triumphantly
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Oct 28
Was great to see Don Katz, Founder of @audible_com in conversation with celebrity chef, entrepreneur and food storyteller, Marcus Samuelsson at the #MontclairFilmFestival @MontclairFilm @MarcusCooks with @motherhoodmag

THREAD /1
. @MarcusCooks of Red Rooster. & Newark’s Marcus BP spoke of how success requires both humility and arrogance. He framed entrepreneurship as curiosity & curiosity about people. @MontclairFilm
/2
Marcus also of the synergy of art, music and food in creating an experience and of the rhythmic jazz sounds of the kitchen. It was mouth-watering! @MontclairFilm @MarcusCooks
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Sep 26
THREAD 🧵 on developing NFT commercialization/licensing standards/templates:

@boredjob released a free-to-use NFT contract template called the PLAN to help NFT owners (e.g., owners of @BoredApeYC & @GutterCatGang Gang) to more quickly & efficiently do IP licensing deals.

/1
Bored Jobs - a platform that facilitates NFT owners who have IP commercialization rights to make licensing deals with established brands - is one of a number of projects I’ve been closely following in the web3 space. And not just because of the clever commercials:

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Sep 11
THREAD 🧵

Why are owners of @GutterCatGang cats buying digital “vials” of “juice” that create new cats from existing cats and cat sacrifices?

And why should #web3 watchers care?

TL;DR: This is actually sophisticated market and product engineering at work. 👀

/1
Earlier today, @GutterCatGang dropped a new NFT.

It was not a new cat avatar collection. But a product that could be purchased and then used by cat 🐱 holders to create “clones” of their cat with new features.

Old Cat + Sacrificial Cat + Juice = Old Cat + Clone Cat

/2
As @GitKnocked has so aptly summarized:

This allows GCG to raise more money without diluting the number of total NFT's in the ecosystem:

1: Release "Vials"

2: two clones and one vial burns one of the clones and replaces with an "Upgraded" clone (D2)

/3
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Sep 7
Mitch Lowe, one of the founders of Netflix, is the keynote speaker today @PulseCon_ . Speaking now.#pulsecon2022 ImageImageImage
“You may start out in one direction (mail order DVDs) and then need to pivot and change direction (streaming). The best employees are the ones who are comfortable with that ambiguity.” - Mitch Lowe

#Netflix
#pulsecon2022 Image
“The number one thing is to find out the thing your customers want you to do.” - Mitch Lowe

Reducing the amount of time for me to get the DVD a customer ordered was what drove the evolution to streaming …

#Netflix
#pulsecon2022 Image
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Aug 28
THREAD:

Short Answer: Yes. There IS a future in #NFTs.

More & more digital stuff + More & more time spent in digital spaces + A technology that allows monetization of digital stuff = !

It's early. Shake-outs will come, but saying its a pandemic fueled bust is click-bait. /1
Longer Answer:

My take - in thread form - on pretty much the same article written months ago:

No doubt, we are in a period of great risk (and potentially great innovation and promise) for the nascent NFT space.



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Longer Answer Continued...

My article in @BLaw on NFTs:

Don't Write Off NFTs. They Will Be Around a Long Time:



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