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Blockchain law: Going after blockchain coders—and perhaps
even the code?
New York Law Journal
A number of recent cases involving blockchain platforms illustrate the difficulties that sometimes emerge in understanding what roles software coders do and don’t play when it comes to such systems, and thus whether they may potentially be faced with liability.
Some 425 years ago, a villainous character in Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part II” famously exclaimed, “The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers” (Act IV, Scene II). Were Shakespeare today a lawyer litigating blockchain cases, would his character be suggesting that the first thing we should do is sue the software coders, or even the code itself?
A number of recent cases involving blockchain platforms illustrate the difficulties that sometimes emerge in understanding what roles software coders do and don’t play when it comes to such systems, and thus whether they may potentially be faced with liability. These cases also show how confusion can arise in distinguishing between code itself and the actions and interests of the humans and entities who may lie behind that code.
Robert A. Schwinger explores recent developments in this edition of his New York Law Journal Blockchain law column.
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