Hermès' and Mason Rothschild's latest legal dispute was over plans to feature the 'MetaBirkin' NFTs in a museum exhibition un Sweden.
Hermès had sued the artist, whose given name is Sonny Estival, for creating and selling 100 MetaBirkins — colorful faux-fur Birkin bag-inspired non-fungible tokens — in November 2021. The . Rothschild and his legal team had insisted that the two-dimensional digital tokens were a commentary on fashion’s fur-free initiative, an experiment in replicating the Following last year’s unanimous decision by a nine-person jury, Justice Jed S.
Rakoff referred to Rothschild in an order as a “straightforward swindler, who tried to cloak his fraud by posing as an artist.” In response to the verdict and throughout the trial, Rothschild had said the First Amendment gives him the right to make and sell the Birkin-inspired Mason Rothschild declined to comment through a spokesperson Monday. An attorney for the artist, Rhett Millsaps of Rothschild, Lex Lumina PLLC, said Monday that a motion for reconsideration will be filed with Rakoff and that that is expected to happen next week.or potentially cause further confusion to consumers. During the evidentiary hearing earlier this month, there was testimony from contemporary art critic Blake Gopnik, who helped organize the exhibition, and the Spritmuseum’s Mia Sundberg.
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