IBL Center Fall Speaker Series: The Evolution of Ownership
Oct 27, 2021
12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
130 Byington Road, Iowa City, IA 52246
Joshua A.T. Fairfield
William Donald Bain Family Professor of Law
Washington & Lee University School of Law
“The Evolution of Ownership”
Non Fungible Tokens represent a new solution to a very old problem, the desire to possess the intangible, and in particular to own unique and rare digital assets. Ownership itself is a fluid concept, however, and the new wave of NFT markets presents opportunities to own assets in subtly different ways than before. What do you own when you purchase a $69 million dollar jpeg tacked loosely to a cryptographic token? This talk will discuss questions of the evolution of ideas of ownership at the ever-changing digital margin.
Join us in Room 245 or via Zoom at https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/91037569456
If attending in person, please RSVP for a boxed lunch to sara-k-clark@uiowa.edu
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