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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Technically, from a copyright perspective, the NFTs were derivative works of the Paintings (underlying works), since the former included major copyrightable elements of the (previously created) latter. Therefore, the moral right of “disclosure” had already been exhausted.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 511, 523 (2012).

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet. In the current cyberspace, copyright infringement and piracy have occurred from developers, artists, and end users. The copyrights Act includes computer programmes and electronic communication, however this has been viewed as a grey area.