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Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute

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Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute. Non-fungible tokens (‘NFTs’) have occupied a significant space in current legal discourse, in no small part due to the numerous legal questions that have emerged in their wake. C) Any non-commercial use of a mark.

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It’s Not a Bag, it’s a MetaBirkin!

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On January 14, 2022, Hermès filed a trademark infringement and dilution lawsuit against Mason Rothschild, the designer of MetaBirkin Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), a collection of 100 fur-covered Birkin-shaped bags, which launched in December 2021 on the NFT exchange platform OpenSea. . Is this Fair Use?