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Protecting IP and Limiting Liability When Licensing IP for Digital Art and NFTs

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Many things are being tokenized, but the growth of NFTs for digital art is booming. This, in part, is due to the recent headline news that Beeple’s iconic digital art work was sold at auction by Christie’s for $69 million. Other digital art is being created to leverage pre-exiting IP and physical art.

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NFT Copyright License Rights: Due Diligence is Critical.

Traverse Legal Blog

You have been reading about them all over the news, they’re the hottest topic in tech right now, especially in the blockchain space. What are the terms by which you are selling the NFT and licensing your work, the art you put into the platform that’s going to be attached to the NFT? Let’s talk about it. That is it.

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Book review: Copyright in the street. An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures

The IPKat

An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures ”, authored by Enrico Bonadio (City University of London). As its title suggests, this book focuses on the relationship between US copyright law and street art and graffiti. Chapter 3 is entitled "Copyright within the street art and graffiti circles".

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Ten things to know about NFTs

The IPKat

I am of the view that the copyright artist resale right should also apply to NFT digital art, meaning that when it is resold the original seller receives a percentage of the subsequent sale. It is infringement to mint an NFT of a protected work without the permission of the rightholder.

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Unroll the Scroll Painting: Inside the Chinese Art Market and Its Regulatory Landscape

LexBlog IP

When Christie’s Auction House first entered the secondary art market of mainland China in 2005, it licensed its brand to a local auction house and received a total of RMB 97,000,000 (roughly $12,100,000) for its inaugural sale. [1] auction stores, antique auction houses, and state-owned antique museums). [5]

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

Traverse Legal Blog

NFT lawyer Enrico Schaefer covers the following topics in this informative article about non-fungible tokens. Should you hire a lawyer to work with you if you are selling or buying an NFT and licensing the associated digital art? The person running the auction may not be the person who owns rights in that digital asset.

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Can algorithmic justice be just? …if it’s quick enough?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The topic of the liability of internet intermediaries has never been so contentious. ISSP include search engines, auction platforms, e-commerce platforms, product comparison services, internet payment systems, self-publishing platforms, social media, etc. In the field of defamation, the CJEU established in Glawischnig that Art.