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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

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Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?

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Limitation period for copyright infringement actions in France

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One of the disputed copies was exhibited in the gardens of the company Le potager des Princes, founded by Mr Bienaimé and located in Chantilly. On 17 December 2008, the Paris Court of Appeal recognised the infringing nature of the reproduction on display.

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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

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A second (revised) edition followed in 2008. In 2017, the Regional Court of Bucharest held that the defendants had infringed the professor’s moral right of attribution. However, as I also discuss here , the CJEU has likely de facto recomprised such right within the broader right of reproduction.

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The concept of quotation according to the Italian Supreme Court: yet another example of the failure in the harmonization of EU copyright exceptions

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In 2008, the Foundation published a six-volume work that illustrated in details the Foundation’s computer-based cataloguing of data related to the painter’s works. Schifano’s heirs sued again the Foundation, claiming violation of their economic and moral rights over the works.