Today’s press release from our partner DataVault brings the discussion about college athletics and Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) rights into full focus. Colleges and universities have been evaluating the benefits and costs of setting up a program to ‘tokenize’ certain aspects of their sports-related intellectual property by memorializing these aspects on a blockchain. A University […]
Announcing the availability of tokens for purchase on the DataVault Exchange.
Get your tokens now for the upcoming FIFA 2022 Men’s World Cup.
All the hype arising from NFTs has undercut the trust virtues of Web3.
Web3 + Staking a Claim is a Better Model The next reboot of the Internet will be the most transformative yet. The opportunity to own and profit from owning your data represents a decentralization of control and power. It is a democratization of the Internet. And it is known as Web3. However, it is critical […]
It’s Precedent — The Human Body is Subject to Property Law, which Enables a Digital DNA Right Carlo Petrini Tweet The ramifications of the premise are of course transformative — imagine if all data associated with a person were owned by that person! It would substantially disrupt the data-driven ecosystems of Silicon Valley (and everywhere else). […]
Blockchain enables an irrefutable and readily ascertainable ownership verification – either an authorized use appears as a transaction on the ledger or not.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has openly disputed the use of his name, image, likeness (NIL), aka image rights, in the electronic game industry. The legal challenge for athletes and celebrities, as well as institutional brands, centers around who owns what data rights? Ownership of data, on an equivalent level as property ownership, is a topic I have written […]