This session will offer a deeper discussion about the legal framework surrounding NFTs and look at its potential to create access in areas that was previously not possible. Any new technology throws up new opportunities for practitioners, but with it there are also new questions of ownership and legalities to deal and new challenges surrounding accessibility and inclusiveness to navigate. This conversation hopes to unpack some of these complexities and help understand the opportunities and challenges involved in NFTs.
Panel-Teilnehmer:
Pankhuri Upadhyay, Lawyer, Founder, Maker’s Legal
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Pankhuri Upadhyay has over a decade of experience in corporate law, having worked at leading law firms in India. She is now the founder of Maker's Legal, a full-service law firm with a strong focus on intellectual property, media, and entertainment laws. One of the primary objectives of the firm, since its inception, has been proactive engagement with the creative community and quantitative research to help better the legal infrastructure for creators in India. This includes anticipating and preparing for legal challenges that innovations in media and technology bring about. Given the rapidly evolving nature of these systems, there is an urgent need for active discourse, problem-solving and equally innovative strategies around concepts of intellectual property along with the legal infrastructure that supports the execution of new media. Maker's Legal strives to work at this intersection of 'future' law, research, education, multimedia, and technology and the facilitation of intermediary processes.
Cyber Shakti – NFT artist
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Cyber Shakti is a multidisciplinary artist, known as the Cyber Shakti Glitch Art Queen Supreme from Mumbai. She is a voice for the divine feminine and a leading figure in the NFT space, continuously dominating the industry and paving the way for other Indian women to explore the sector. With over 10 years of experience in marketing for advertising, media, and entertainment industries, Cyber Shakti is a MICA Alumni who combines her travels, photography, glitch art, digital painting, and video loops to create beautifully layered works. Has been a part of many solo & group exhibitions, as an artist and curator, Including Cryptoart week Asia (Singapore, 2020, 2021), Utopian Dystopia 2022, ImNot Art (Chicago 2021), DAZE 2021, Cryptoart Revolution (Paris, 2021).
She created history by being the 1st female Indian NFT artist to have her Glitch art auctioned & sold at Sotheby’s, as a part of Glitch: Beyond binary auction held in April 2023.
Anuradha Chowdhary, Lawyer – Founder, Zeroto3
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Anuradha is a corporate and IP lawyer, and founder of ZEROTO3 - a specialised legal firm for emerging tech, Web3 and media and entertainment. She’s presently working towards demystifying the legal landscape for next-gen businesses. In addition to being a lawyer, Anuradha holds a degree in filmmaking along with experience in the film and entertainment industry.
Rashmi Dhanwani (Moderator), Founder and Director, Art X Company
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Rashmi Dhanwani is the Founder of the Art X Company, a strategic consultancy for the cultural sector focused on strategy, audience development and sector research. Prior to founding Art X, Rashmi has worked with NCPA Mumbai, Breakthrough in Delhi, the newspaper Daily News and Analysis (DNA); Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, and The Goa Project. She holds a Masters in Cultural and Creative Industries from King’s College London. She has also been a recipient of the ARThink South Asia Fellowship (2011-12), a participant fellow at ‘The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute’, a scholarship grantee of the JN Tata Trust and Charles Wallace India Trust, and a 2017 Global Fellow of the International Society for Performing Arts (ISPA), New York. Rashmi has also founded Arts Culture Resources India, a network and platform for cultural professionals in India and South Asia.
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