March 2023 / Artist Ownership
NFTs, Smart Contracts, & DAOs
A Resource for Creatives
A report to help creatives capture the opportunities of blockchain technologies, while protecting themselves from legal risk
Prepared for CCI by Alex Glancy at GGH LLP
Alex Glancy is a partner and founding attorney at GGH LLP where she practices transactional law for startups, impact-oriented companies, cooperatives, and creatives. She advises both new founders and established companies and organizations on corporate structure and governance, investment fundraising, and contracts of all types. Leading the firm’s intellectual property (IP) practice, Alex counsels on copyright and trademark matters for entrepreneurs and creatives, including negotiating, reviewing, and drafting IP-related contracts of key importance to clients’ IP portfolios. She has represented visual artists, graphic designers, and producers in these areas.
When we started seeing many BIPOC artists moving into the blockchain space several years ago, we started building our own expertise in this area.
That’s why we commissioned Alex Glancy at Gundzik Gundzik Heeger LLP to author this report exploring the legal challenges artists face on the blockchain.
To support creatives as they engage with this new technology, this report seeks to provide information in the legal areas of copyright, business entities, securities, contracts, and trademark, as applied to these emerging tools.
Ultimately, we hope this report serves as a resource to help creatives capture the opportunities of blockchain technologies, while protecting themselves from the risks.
