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NFT Copyright License Rights: Due Diligence is Critical.

Traverse Legal Blog

How do you know if what you’re doing is lawful? An NFT is a Smart Contract, meaning that it embeds specific basic contract terms in the NFT metadata that goes onto the blockchain. That Smart Contract, that token that can have unique data associated with it. You’ll also get digital collectible album artwork.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These questions will be addressed by applying UK law and the EU copyright acquis to NFTs, as illustrated by relevant Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) case law and global contemporary examples. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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NFT Lawyer: Legal Risks with ‘Non-Fungible Tokens’

Traverse Legal Blog

In this Tech Law Radio podcast, NFT attorney Enrico Schaefer talks about legal issues which are already being litigated by lawyers in the NFT marketplace. A non-fungible token allows you to put a smart contract onto the blockchain that is unique unto itself. Your only protection on the front end is due diligence.

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Fatal Mistakes Made By The ‘Bored Ape Yacht Club’ & ‘Crypto Punks’ NFT Projects

Traverse Legal Blog

Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). The art inside the gallery is protected by COpyright law. Due diligence is critical. Copyrights protection for the artwork itself is also critical.

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U.S. Treasury Study Rejects Immediate Need for New Regulation of Art Market

LexBlog IP

When the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (“AMLA”) became law on January 1, 2021, it was described as the most influential anti-money laundering (“AML”) legislation since the USA PATRIOT Act. [2] ” [7] In 2020, Treasury defined high-value art as artwork having an estimated market value of over $100,000. [8]

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? The same rule applies to digital artworks sold as NFTs. ” But given that these guys don’t seem to be coming to the table with anything other than an admittedly fake IP rights contract, I wouldn’t hold my breath. .” Definitely.

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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In a policy paper , copyright and art-law experts led by the author clarified the general copyright law principles applicable to stakeholders dealing with digital cultural heritage worldwide and formulated recommendations, addressed to policy-makers, to facilitate their digital activities. version with further considerations (e.g.,