It’s fashionable right now to declare that “non-financial use cases of crypto are dead.” Some people also claim that read write own has failed. These conclusions misunderstand both the thesis and the stage we’re in.
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AI systems are breaking an internet that was designed at human-scale — by making it cheaper than ever to coordinate, transact, and generate voice, video, and text that are increasingly indistinguishable from human activity. We’re already beset w
A talk on the basics of intellectual property for web3 projects from Harvard Business School professor and a16z research partner Scott Kominers. Community-created, novel IP – from NFTs to software protocols – has been a surprisingly impactful application of web3. This presentation covers the purpose of IP rights, emerging trends in shared IP, and the basic parameters of IP design.