Remove Article Remove Artwork Remove Copyright Law Remove Non-Fungible Tokens
article thumbnail

Blurred Lines: How the Lack of Regulation of NFT Platforms Has Fueled Rampant Art Theft

IPilogue

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article was written as a requirement for Prof. Still, the straightforward process for creating non-fungible tokens (NFT) has accelerated the theft of digital art.

article thumbnail

Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Rise of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the Role of Copyright Law – Part II by Peter Mezei , João Pedro Quintais , Alexandra Giannopoulou and Balázs Bodó. From relative obscurity only a few months back, public awareness of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has risen dramatically.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

The IPKat

Other Katfriend Sandra Torillas Rodríguez prepared a guest post on the non-fungible tokens’ (NFTs) implications for IP. After providing readers with some background on NFT, Sandra discusses how copyright law can be applied to an NFT artwork, using Banksy’s art as a case study.

article thumbnail

Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

Non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) continue to be popular. Provisions of intellectual property law will be applicable to NFTs. Article 143 of the Patent Law provides patent holders recourse to file claims in the Commercial Court if the rights under their patent are infringed by another party.

article thumbnail

IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

IP Tech Blog

The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. As NFTs per se are currently unregulated by statutes in the US, common law protection through trademarks may become all the more important. Applicable IP rights.

IP 109
article thumbnail

The Rise of NFTs and Its Legal Complications

IP and Legal Filings

This paper attempts to analyse the present laws governing the trading of NFTs over the public ledger and the loopholes in those regulations that could have significant legal implications. NFT stands for Non-Fungible Tokens. as non-fungible tokens and fans have bought the same for millions of dollars.

article thumbnail

IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

LexBlog IP

The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. As NFTs per se are currently unregulated by statutes in the US, common law protection through trademarks may become all the more important. Applicable IP rights.

IP 52