"Brian L. Frye and Primavera de Filippi are two lawyers who have made art to explore the ramifications of intellectual property law. With Aaron Wright, de Filippi coauthored Blockchain and the Law (2018), a speculative book about legal problems raised by blockchain technologies and possible solutions to them. But she had previously approached similar questions through Plantoid (2015), an artwork in the form of a mechanical plant that reproduces itself via transactions on the blockchain. Frye published a paper in 2019 likening the purchase of conceptual art to the acquisition of shares in an abstract business proposition, which therefore makes it a violation of the 1933 Securities Act. This primed him to see the NFT market as a shift in the perception of intellectual property that applied the model of the art market to all kinds of creative work. He subsequently released several of his own NFT series based on various types of conceptual art and intellectual property, including a collection of drawings from abandoned patents issued between 1842 and 1925. Frye and de Filippi met to discuss their research and advocacy related to the blockchain and IP rights. Both have been active in the Creative Commons community, seeking alternatives to copyright to encourage the free dissemination of creative work."