Solano: Bored Ape Yacht Club granted full commercial rights to token holders
Greg Solano · HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow · Sep 1, 2022 · at 35:29
Greg Solano, co-founder of Yuga Labs, explains the licensing structure embedded into the Bored Ape Yacht Club terms.
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“And so, and the other aspect that we baked in here was the idea that if you owned a Bored Ape and could prove that on the smart contract level, you had it in your Ethereum wallet, then you also had, by virtue of the terms, a full license to the commercial rights to use that.”
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