Are NFTs Securities? with Securities Lawyer Brian Frye
David has been obsessed with this topic for the last couple weeks. It's time to get to the bottom of this: Are NFTs securities? On the way down this rabbit hole, we found lawyer Brian Frye, who has some fascinating and novel takes on this very...
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David has been obsessed with this topic for the last couple weeks. It's time to get to the bottom of this: Are NFTs securities?
On the way down this rabbit hole, we found lawyer Brian Frye, who has some fascinating and novel takes on this very issue.
Brian is a law professor at the University of Kentucky, and recently wrote an article in Coindesk titled “NFTs Are Securities and It’s Great.”
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------ Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro 7:30 Are All NFTs Securities? 14:00 Triggered by the Word 19:30 Trolling the SEC 29:20 A Really Good Tool 36:00 New Securities 44:55 Use a Different Term 53:30 Creative Assets 1:01:00 Copyright Law and Clout Sales 1:09:30 A Medium of Value Capture 1:14:00 Public Goods 1:19:00 Closing
------ Recources:
Brian Frye https://twitter.com/brianlfrye
After Copyright: Pwning NFTs in a Clout Economy https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3971240
Securities Spectrum: https://imgur.com/8jt6OZ1
NFTs are Securities and It's Great https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2022/12/28/nfts-are-securities-and-its-great/
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