Essential legal texts with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain. All carefully selected, transcribed, and minted as non-fungible tokens ― NFTs ― by a collective of international lawyers and artists, NFT Legal™.
With the spirit of decentrally preserving the fundamental truth that We are Born Free.
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Made possible by BitLibraries™ and The Law Office of Matthew Huzaineh, PC
Throughout history, libraries and centralized stores of information have been subjected to attacks and destruction: From the burning of Xianyang Palace in 206 BCE ― to the Deutsche Studentenschaft's organized attack on the Institute of Sex Research in 1933 ― to the systematic burning of hundreds of thousands of books in the Mosul Library by ISIL in the 2010s. The examples are countless and difficult to accept.
Today, in the era of cyber attacks, centralized digitally stored information can be destroyed or stolen in an instant. This new reality has created the need for decentralizing public information, and the opportunity to harness the Ethereum blockchain as a tool in doing so.
NFT Legal™ is doing its part in decentralizing public information by minting NFTs of .TXT files ― called BitLibs™ (short for BitLiberties™) ― all of which are fundamental pieces of legislation or caselaw that uphold human rights.
Every BitLib™ NFT is minted only if it upholds a fundamental human right. Cultural subjectivity and bias is inevitable in this selection process, which is why NFT Legal™ is a multicultural collective.
Unfortunately, history has more legal decrees that restrict human rights, rather than uphold them. These examples include the Nuremberg Race Laws ― The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine ― and even the The Code of Hammurabi, which codified slavery and trial-by-river.
Yet, many legal texts have emerged that preserve our rights. Some have even rectified past wrongs, for example the cases Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), which legalized homosexual marriage ― and Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Examples like Obergefell and Brown are among the texts minted as BitLibs™ for decentralized preservation as NFTs on the Etheruem blockchain.
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