NFTs (non-fungible tokens): Civil Recovery, Proprietary Status and Limitless Utility

For this seminar, we are joined by barrister Racheal Muldoon of 36 Commercial. Racheal will be speaking about her landmark UK cases Osbourne v Opensea [2022] EWHC 1021 and D'Aloia v Binance [2022] EWHC 1723 (Ch). Osbourne considered whether NFTs are standalone assets separate from the items they represent and whether they have sufficient indicia of property to form the basis of injunctive relief. In D’Aloia, the court permitted service of court proceedings via blockchain token—the first order of its kind outside the United States—and examined constructive trustee liability of crypto exchanges.

We will start off the discussion with a presentation from Racheal and then open up the rest of the seminar to questions from the convenors and the audience.

Please join us in Teaching Room 5, Levine Building, Trinity College.