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47 AIPLA Q. J. 219 (2019)
Cryptokitties, Cryptography, and Copyright

handle is hein.journals/aiplaqj47 and id is 227 raw text is: AIPLA QUARTERLY JOURNAL Volume 47, Number 2 Page 219 Spring 2019 CRYPTOKITTIES, CRYPTOGRAPHY, AND COPYRIGHT Tonya M. Evans* 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................ 220 II. CHALLENGES IN PROTECTING DIGITAL GOODS IP IN WEB 2.0 .............. 224 III. BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY'S PROCESS AND PROMISE ....................... 229 A. BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW: WEB 3.0 ..................... 232 B. BLOCKCHAIN PR R ...................................................... 233 1. E thereum .......................................................... 239 2. Sm art Contracts ................................................... 242 3. Fungibility ......................................................... 246 a. ERC-20: Fungible tokens ............................ 247 b. ERC-721: Non-Fungible tokens ................... 248 4. Creative Digital Asset Owner Dilemma ....................... 249 IV. CRYPTOKITTIES CASE STUDY FOR GAMING AND DIGITAL ART ............. 250 A . N IFTY LICENSE ............................................................... 252 B. OTHER ERC-721 USE CASES ............................................... 253 V. COPYRIGHT AND CREATIVE CRYPTO ASSETS ..................................... 254 A. APPLICABILITY OF COPYRIGHT TO BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CREATIVITY .................................................................................. 2 6 0 B. REGISTRATION ............................................................... 260 C. ORPHAN W ORKS ............................................................ 263 © 2019 Tonya M. Evans. Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law (B.S., Northwestern University; J.D., cum laude, Howard University School of Law). Many thanks to my research assistant, Nicole Waldow Antonetti, for always exceeding expectations and for sharing her keen editorial eye in the final stages of this Article, and commentators from the BYU Copyright and Trademark Symposium, 2018 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, and the 2018 Lutie Lytle Black Women Faculty Workshop & Writing Retreat. This Article is a featured work from the Brigham Young University 2018 Copyright and Trademark Symposium, titled Emerging Issues in the Digital Age.