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Lee, Edward (Law professor)
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NFTs (Tokens)
Blockchains (Databases) -- Industrial applications.
Cryptocurrencies.
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Lee, Edward (Law professor)
NFTs (Tokens)
Blockchains (Databases) -- Industrial applications.
Cryptocurrencies.
MARC Display
Creators
take
control
:
how
NFTs
revolutionize
art
,
business
, and
entertainment
/ Edward Lee.
by
Lee, Edward (Law professor)
Harper Business, 2023.
Call #:
332.40285 L477c
Subjects
NFTs
(Tokens)
Blockchains (Databases) -- Industrial applications.
Cryptocurrencies.
ISBN:
9780063276772 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xix, 379 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-364) and index.
Summary:
"A leading legal scholar offers a compelling new theory to explain the meteoric rise of non-fungible tokens (
NFTs
) and their impact on
art
,
business
,
entertainment
, and society, and explains
how
they are revolutionizing our understanding of ownership. If you buy an NFT, do you own anything? Critics say no. Then why are people spending so much money to own them -- to the tune of $27 billion in 2021? And why are big businesses and venture capital firms investing hundreds of millions to develop
NFTs
for people’s use in the metaverse, a purely imaginary world? In
Creators
Take
Control
, Edward Lee offers a compelling new theory he calls “Tokenism” that answers these perplexing questions. Using vivid examples, Lee lucidly explains
how
NFTs
operate -- and
how
they fundamentally change our understanding of ownership. Tokenism is an artistic, cultural, and technological movement that creates value in a new kind of ownership of a new type of property -- symbolized by a virtual token -- through a process of technological abstraction and artificial scarcity effectuated by
NFTs
. Ownership becomes virtual. What Cubism did in radically changing the twentieth-century perspective of creating and viewing
art
through cubes, Tokenism does today in altering our perspective of owning
art
and other things through tokens. Both movements radically reimagine what’s possible.
Creators
and businesses have seized upon this profound transformation. In a short time, they have developed a new market for digital
art
, important new rights for
creators
, innovative
business
models based on decentralized collaboration, and a new type of interactive ownership that enables identity, community, and patronage through
NFTs
. These innovations are just the start of revolutionary changes to society. Lee shows
how
NFTs
create a new form of decentralized intellectual property, or De-IP. Comparable to the movement to decentralized finance (DeFi), De-IP empowers
creators
to
take
control
of their artistic productions and livelihood. Lee’s intellectual tour de force is filled with practical insights -- and hope -- for fostering creativity and a Virtual Renaissance for the ages."--Publisher.
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