NFTs

* Law schools defiantly bucked U.S. News and World Report. Now they face the inevitable consequences of their own actions. [NY Times]

* Elon Musk’s management of Twitter just keeps getting worse. [Bloomberg Law News]

* NFT insider trading case begins. [Reuters]

* Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy amid sagging Beyond sales. [Law360]

* Associate latering down 66 percent. [American Lawyer]

* Fox’s Dominion settlement likely to only cost the company about three-fourths of the total. So they’ve got that going for them! [Huffington Post]

* Cop who killed Breonna Taylor has a new law enforcement job because in many offices that behavior is a feature not a bug. [Forbes]

Above the Law's new fashion law columnist examines the Hermès-Rothschild case.

It is unclear why the IRS is making this announcement.

In short, Rothschild has no problem painting Hermes as a hypocritical trademark bully, so obsessive about protecting its bottom line that the company was willing to make an example of someone making an artistic statement using an iconic luxury item as a reference point.

We asked experts for an explainer even the Web3-illiterate will understand.

A new set of legal issues and advertising opportunities.

People are waiting to pass these NFTs off to even bigger suckers at a huge profit on the secondary market.

Even if there is no indictment, crypto and NFT fraud victims can still take a theft loss if they invested the money with the intent of making a profit.

Herbert Smith Freehills is going all in on emerging tech.

As NFTs become more popular, it's important to understand the legal issues surrounding them.

The study doesn’t shy away from acknowledging the darker sides of the market.

We will likely see a lot more of these arrests and prosecutions in the future.

But let’s be clear, just because someone buys an NFT, that almost always also means that they don’t own the underlying copyrighted work that their hash points to on the internet.

* In memoriam: A son remembers a legal giant. [The Pulse]

* Gagging the 1st: 11th Circuit considers the constitutionality of a law that imposes heightened penalties on a class of protesters. [CBS 12]

* The police are called on Yale students who protested a Federalist Society lecturer. What happened to fighting speech with speech? [New York Post]

* Texas is locking up folks without filing charges or giving them lawyers. No way this is legal. [The Texas Tribune]

* Turns out Pepe does not go to the moon: 500k lawsuit follows after an NFT buyers faces the power of ctrl + v. [Notebook Check]

Thus far, the Copyright Office has found no reason to depart from the long-standing approach of awarding copyright registrations only to humans.

* “Wait, are we the bad guys?” The moral ambiguity of Law & Order may be indicative of our legal zeitgeist. Or something, I just write jokes. [NYT]

* One man’s consideration of financial need is another man’s price fixing. While Yale won’t like being the cause for litigation, I have a funny feeling they know a few good lawyers. [Yale Daily News]

* Tired of venture capitalist bros being the only ones insufferably discussing NFTs? Learn the legal angles now and wow your soon-to-be ex-friends! Here’s a primer. [Legalscoops]

* Prison industrial complex to human rights breach pipeline? New Jersey’s Institute for Social Justice says denying the formerly incarcerated the right to vote is a human rights violation. [Insider NJ]

* Share with them a penny for the ferryman: Houston law firm does a little democracy assistance by fronting voters’ transportation costs. [NBC DFW]

Nike notes that the new frontier of NFTs has 'swiftly become a virtual playground for infringers to usurp the goodwill of some of the most famous trademarks in the world.'

The case should cause brands to not sit around and wait for this type of infringement to occur.