Breaking down the "real-world legal contract specifying the terms of the streaming royalties and guaranteeing real-world ownership for the NFT holder" for #Rihanna's #NFT offering, which dropped last week ahead of her #SuperBowl Halftime performance tomorrow.
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The 300 royalty-linked NFTs were available for purchase last week at $210 a piece and quickly sold out. Each NFT provides holders with royalties from streaming revenues of her 2015 hit song, "B**** Better Have My Money," and some other goodies.
For all the music -loving, Super Bowl-watching NFT-license-agreement- reading peeps, here's a little summary:
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Parties:
The Agreement is between Janil Pierre, a CA entity stated to own the Master Recording and be entitled to the digital streaming royalties for the song and the NFT Holder (specified by a Drop ID that NFT owner mints).
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AnotherBlock:
AnotherBlock (AB) is an entity based in Sweden that Janil Pierre engaged to handle the NFT mint and this business arrangement
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NFT Holder Rights:
Each holder will receive "a portion of 0.0033 % of the streaming royalties" for the song after the date the NFT was minted (less fees)
As per press, also get access to a gated Discord community, real-world events, priority access for upcoming NFT releases.
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Artwork:
NFT Holder also gets a non-exclusive personal non-commercial license to use the accompanying visual artwork, which was created by an NFT artist
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Notes:
NFT Holder must claim the royalties (less any fees) every 6 months. AB will not actively transfer the royalties to the NFT Holders wallets if claim is not made.
NFT Holder must provide a crypto wallet address to get paid and complete KYC requirements upon request.
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Notes cont.
NFT holder is responsible for all fees, including gas fees.
The Agreement is governed by Swedish Law. (Not sure what substantive effect this has, if any, but likely because AB is a Swedish company.)
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Second Sales:
NFT Holders can sell or transfer the NFT, provided its on the same blockchain & payment is made on-chain. New purchaser takes the NFT subject to the terms of this Ownership Agreement. Secondary Sale Royalty of 5% of the sales price is paid to AB & Janil Pierre
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Wishing her best of luck at Halftime and with this NFT drop. It's exciting to see music + NFT happening:. There is so much potential there!
THEEAD 🧵 Another new lawsuit was filed today against Stability AI, the makers of Stable Diffusion generative AI software. The Plaintiff in this case is Getty Images.
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This isn’t the first lawsuit against Stability AI and other generative AI app makers.
*Most” of Yuga’s post about l copyright and BAYC makes sense to me.
I agree that they owned the copyrights. That they just didn’t register them. And that since a human designed the traits, using AI as a tool doesn’t pose a problem in getting a copyright. news.yuga.com/reflection-on-…
Except I don’t buy Yuga’s statements that they (still) hold the copyright and their NFT holders have a broad license. Or at least think it’s highly debatable.
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Although the original BAYC are internally inconsistent there are strong arguments that Yuga transferred the coopyrights to the NFT holders (not just a license).
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“Crypto, goodbye
You hurt me, for the last time
It's time for me to move on
So Crypto, goodbye
I gave u cash and I lost it
Yeah, all the Bitcoin that I wasted”
Original music/lyrics:
Thanks 🙏 to The Kid Laroi
Crypto goodbye
You hurt me, for the last time
It's the last time I let u hurt me
Crypto goodbye, I did not deserve it
None of this bullshit was ever really worth it
You blame me like I know I aint perfect
I tried with you, and I lied for you
Many times, put my rep on the line 4 u
🎶 Wait, that was a lie
Because I cannot erase you like eternal sunshine in a spotless mind
Red in the eyes, lately I've been on a GM diet
I've been tryin' to feed my high
Your things are still in the wallet left up in Coinbase 🎶
A class action copyright infringement lawsuit was filed against Stability AI (Stable Diffusion), Midjourney, and DeviantArt, Inc. (DreamUp) on behalf of artists who allege their works were used to train #AI generative art algorithms.
THREAD 🧵 to come 👇 once I read!
It was only a matter of time before the issue of copyright infringement by AI apps was tested by the Courts.
In our Nov 2022 @Law360 article, “A Look at Future AI Questions” we asked whether & when AI generated work is an infringing derivative work:
The class action plaintiffs in this ND Cal suit, which is - as far as I know - the first asserting these types of claims against generative art AI apps are artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz.
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