The Tampa Museum of Art presents a Lawyers for the Arts program with Art and Law Lawyer Alexandra Darraby. The presentation geared towards lawyers and art enthusiasts will focus on NFTs, the metaverse, copyright, and technology.
Neither technology nor culture is new nor modern. But entertainment and luxury goods are in a digital ascendance in the form of Non Fungible Tokens. Alexandra Darraby, founder of the Art Law Firm®, former gallery owner and law professor, describes the connectivity of tech and culture based on recent cases shared from her newest book on arts & technology, excerpted here: “The metaverse is the new virtual and visual frontier, a user- interactive digital environment based in computer-generated spaces of augmented and virtual realities, NFTs and cryptocurrency. These are ether worlds in which visual imagery predominates. Virtual reality thus impacts—and challenges–traditional bricks and mortar interactions, judicial administration and attorney-client engagement. Technology upends categorizing legal claims, interpreting traditional statutory terms; re-evaluating demographics for litigation and juries, and impacts the meaning of societal and legal community engagement.”
Join legal commentator Alexandra, author of Darraby on Art Law, in a program featuring the dynamic impact of NFTs and appropriation on markets, collections and legal practice, including Quentin Tarantino and Pulp Fiction, Andy Warhol and Prince, Lil Yachty, heirloom and iconic brands like Hermes, Patek Philippe, Cartier and Bulgari, and more. Presentation includes how and why have NFTs trigger appropriation types of litigation on claims of copyright and trademark infringement, publicity rights, unfair competition and how lawyers and law firms might ethically and responsibly advise clients in a climate of rapid change and inconclusive adjudication.