{"id":37948,"date":"2022-12-17T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T20:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37948"},"modified":"2022-12-17T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T20:59:11","slug":"the-digital-age-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/17\/the-digital-age-trademark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Digital Age Trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya remember how you could go to a garage sale and buy most anything, free &amp; clear? Things are a little different in the Digital Age. Renting software has become a popular business strategy, at least for those who write the software.<\/p>\n<p>And non-fungible tokens (NFTs)?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What exactly are buyers of the Trump Trading Cards purchasing? Yes, they are NFTs, but unlike others of these digital art pieces, the people foolish enough to purchase a Trump Trading Card don\u2019t actually own the things they paid for, at least not in the traditional sense. If any buyer decides to sell their Trump card in a secondary market, they don\u2019t get all the proceeds. The fine print reveals that 10% of every secondary market sales goes right back to Trump and his fellow grifters. For more details, buyers are told to click the link to terms and conditions.<em> [Kurt Eichenwald, <a href=\"https:\/\/threats.substack.com\/p\/trumps-trading-card-grift-is-worse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Threats Within<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Eichenwald claims the page containing the terms and conditions is a <em>Page not found<\/em>. Maybe they fixed it.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Trump isn&#8217;t selling these cards, he&#8217;s renting them out on an unlimited time, transferable-for-a-fee basis. Of course, outrage may not be called for if the value of these cards sink into mire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya remember how you could go to a garage sale and buy most anything, free &amp; clear? Things are a little different in the Digital Age. Renting software has become a popular business strategy, at least for those who write the software. And non-fungible tokens (NFTs)? What exactly are buyers \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/17\/the-digital-age-trademark\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37950,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37948\/revisions\/37950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}