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20 June 2022Copyright

Monkey business: Seth Green’s bored ape NFT and a barrel of IP issues

Headlines such as “Actor Seth Green to pay $260,000 in ransom to retrieve rights to develop a television show based on the character in a stolen NFT!” have drawn recent attention to non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

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