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NFTs And The Law: What Do I Actually Own?

LawTechnologyToday

An NFT is composed of software code in the form of “smart contracts.” Smart contracts are open-sourced blockchain protocols that control the transfer of digital currency under certain terms and conditions. Once a smart contract is created, it is “minted” onto the token on a blockchain. Smart contracts will be key in this sense.

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Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) No 4/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

In order to limit the forum shopping potential of the present rules on jurisdiction and applicable law in defamation cases, an intervention by the EU legislature should be envisaged. Litigation in matters of corporate accountability is, distinctively, strategic in nature. XXXII-329.

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Parties to TEGNA Deal Seek Full Commission Review of Hearing Designation Order – Looking at the Process They are Trying to Avoid 

Broadcast Law Blog

Last week, broadcasters and broadcast journalists were abuzz with discussions of the FCC’s Media Bureau issuing a hearing designation order referring to an Administrative Law Judge questions about the proposed acquisition of the TEGNA broadcast stations by Standard General Broadcasting.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  March 19, 2022 to March 25, 2022

Broadcast Law Blog

See our post on the Broadcast Law Blog for more information, and read the audit letter setting out all the requirements for the audit response and the list of audited stations, here. The FCC itself will not routinely assess contract claims, leaving those determinations to state courts.

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What Does an FCC Designation for Hearing Mean?

Broadcast Law Blog

The FCC had a large staff of Administrative Law Judges who heard these cases, and they were usually quite busy. As in any civil litigation, these cases can be lengthy, with discovery and other procedural wrangling taking months to play out.

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‘Giustizia consensuale’: A New Law Journal on Consensual Justice in Its Many Nuances and Forms

Conflict of Laws

Neil Andrews (University of Cambridge), Procedure, Party Agreement, and Contract (in English). If they have chosen (a), the parties might stipulate which court and in which jurisdiction the matter will be litigated. In this piece the author considers three points of interaction between agreement and procedure. (1)

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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