Artnet

A U.S. Court Has Handed a Legal Victory to Digital Artist Kevin McCoy in an Ownership Challenge Over the First-Ever NFT

Kevin McCoy, the artist who is widely credited with creating the first NFT, and auction house Sotheby’s have won a legal victory in a lawsuit that challenged the terms and propriety of a 2021 sale at ...
JD Supra

Ownership Claims over Auction of “The First NFT” Previously Dismissed by a New York Court Now on Appeal

Way back (if we’re counting tech years) in 2014, artist Kevin McCoy (“McCoy”) created a digital record of his pulsating, octagon-shaped digital artwork Quantum on the Namecoin blockchain on May 2, ...
The New York Times

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Ownership of $1.47 Million NFT

The legal battle over “Quantum” is part of a larger effort to define rules of ownership for digital artworks. By Zachary Small A federal court last Friday dismissed a lawsuit that questioned the ...
AOL

Sotheby’s and Artist Kevin McCoy are Being Sued Over the Sale of a $1.5 Million NFT

Sotheby’s made headlines last year when it sold Kevin McCoy’s Quantum (2014), which some have regarded as the first-ever NFT, for $1.47 million during its “Natively Digital” auction. Now, that sale is ...
techtimes

New Open-Source Software Promises to Accelerate Quantum Technology Research

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an open-source software called SuperConga, which promises to accelerate quantum technology research and facilitate new ...