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IP, Blockchain, and Digital Assets

JD Supra Law

In 2008, a still-unknown person or group going by the alias Satoshi Nakamoto introduced blockchain technology and the first cryptocurrency to the world. In 2020, the cryptocurrency market was valued at $1.49

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3 Count: International Incidents

Plagiarism Today

” NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, have seen both big sales and big business in the past year. ATN was founded in 2008 and eventually grew to over 70,000 customers. They are essentially a receipt that is placed on the blockchain that allows a purchaser to claim “ownership” over that particular NFT.

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LimeWire to Return to Sell NFTs

Plagiarism Today

As such, the new LimeWiere will not be a file sharing network, but a marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), initially focusing on music. This grabbed headlines in September 2008 when electronics retailer Best Buy purchased the rights to the Napster name for $121 million.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

Non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) continue to be popular. 11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.• Introduction. Government Regulation No. Minister of Communication and Informatics Regulation No.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. And why is that? Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected.

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

On September 23, the art site PokerPaint announced on their Twitter (Tweet now deleted) that they were releasing a series of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on OpenSea. According to Cariou, Prince’s 2008 series Canal Zone took images from a collection of photographs by Cariou and used them with only slight modifications.

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What the hell are NFTs, and why is the art world crazy over them?

Clancco

If you’re still lost as to what the fundamentals of NFTs are, I explain it here in an art & law essay from 2008, including how NFT’s are really not anything new but rather just another property right, albeit one that could revolutionize art.

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