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Enforcing intellectual property rights in metaverse gaming platforms: The next steps for the EU's metaverse agenda

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article delineates a comprehensive framework for the achievement of effective metaverse governance that reflects the EU's current metaverse agenda and promotes respect for intellectual property rights. To do so, this article follows a two‐strand methodology. It engages in a doctrinal legal analysis and a policy‐oriented assessment.
Zoi Krokida, Ioanna Lapatoura
wiley   +1 more source

L’arte digitale quale futuro veicolo della contemporaneità: gli NFT (Non Fungible Token)

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage
Gli NFT rappresentano il principale strumento per la certificazione dell’autenticità e della proprietà di opere d'arte digitali. Un NFT è un certificato digitale immutabile e protetto tramite blockchain, una tecnologia sicura che garantisce l’integrità ...
Salvatore Lorusso   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

How LLMs might think

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Do large language models (“LLMs”) think? Daniel Stoljar and Zhihe Vincent Zhang have recently developed an argument from rationality for the claim that LLMs do not think. We contend, however, that the argument from rationality not only falters, but leaves open an intriguing possibility: that LLMs engage only in arational, associative forms of thinking ...
Joseph Gottlieb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intergovernmental Grants, Fiscal Autonomy, and Local Budgeting: Evidence of Reference Dependence From Korea

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a panel threshold regression to examine how own‐source revenues and unconditional grants affect internal expenditures of Korean local governments. Guided by mental accounting theory, we argue that revenue sources create distinct “accounts,” shaping expenditure choices. Results reveal two thresholds (0.310% and 0.401%) beyond
Kyungmin Yoo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A network analysis of the non-fungible token (NFT) market: structural characteristics, evolution, and interactions

open access: yesApplied Network Science, 2023
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a type of digital asset that can prove ownership of both virtual and physical assets using blockchains. Even though creating and trading NFTs have experienced a significant increase, research on the NFT market and its ...
Sajjad Alizadeh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
wiley   +1 more source

A scientometric analysis on blockchain and NFTs: trends and development

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study provides a comprehensive contribution to the current understanding of blockchain technology and non-fungible token (NFTs). Blockchain technology is a revolutionary data storage and management tool that records data shared across a network of ...
Md Imran Khan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

LEGAL PROTECTION FOR NFT INVESTORS IN INDONESIA’S DIGITAL CREATIVE INDUSTRY: A TRANSFORMATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL LAW APPROACH

open access: yesIndonesia Private Law Review
Investment in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) is rapidly emerging in Indonesia, presenting both opportunities and challenges for the digital creative industry.
Muhammad Ilman Abidin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Construal Level on Mental Accounting: Abstract (vs. Concrete) Construal Reduces the Mental Labeling Effect

open access: yesJournal of Behavioral Decision Making, Volume 39, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Mental accounting research exhibits how consumers' marketplace behaviors deviate from those predicted by the Standard Economic Theory. For example, research shows how money loses fungibility when people assign mental labels to their currency and make purchases consistent with such labels. Although the applications of mental accounting are well
Mehdi Tanzeeb Hossain
wiley   +1 more source

How can a plastic credit system improve traceability and verifiability in plastic waste management?

open access: yesWaste Management Bulletin
Plastic credit schemes are increasingly adopted to mitigate plastic pollution, yet existing systems remain centralized, opaque, and prone to double counting and fraud.
Andry Alamsyah   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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