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Luxurious style model Hermès is asking a federal courtroom to dam gross sales of non-fungible tokens based mostly on its widespread Birkin bag, in line with Reuters.
Final month, a New York jury dominated digital artist Mason Rothschild had violated Hermès’s mental property rights by selling and promoting his “MetaBirkin” NFTs based mostly on the Birkin baggage. Rothschild was ordered to pay $133,000 in damages.
Hermès alleges in its submitting that Rothschild has continued to advertise the NFTs regardless of the ruling, Reuters mentioned. The style firm desires the federal courtroom to intervene and pressure Rothschild to not solely cease promoting the digital property but in addition switch the NFTs he nonetheless owns to Hermès.
The courtroom’s February ruling in favor of Hermès has been thought-about important and probably precedent-setting as whether or not or not NFTs are artwork or commodities has been introduced into query. As was the case with MetaBirkins, different inventive NFT collections have borrowed parts of present mental property.
Rothschild’s lawyer plans to oppose Hermes’s submitting this week, mentioned Reuters.
