The IPKat
APRIL 19, 2023
In 2014, digital artist Kevin McCoy created a piece of digital art named “Quantum” (viewable here ) and decided to create a digital record of Quantum by recording a name on the Namecoin blockchain on 2 May 2014. However, and beyond the fact that the registration is expired, any name maintains in the blockchain its own history.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2022
The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. However, Target’s allegedly infringing works apparently were designed no later than December 2017. Work #11: posted to Facebook in 2014 and got 209 likes and 37 comments. Target Corp.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Although NFTs have been around since 2014 , this asset class has only just experienced its first and quite remarkable outgrowth , thus staking its claim in the broader blockchain industry. This is the unfortunate reality for most NFT projects: their artwork is entirely mutable which defeats the entire purpose of those NFTs.
Traverse Legal Blog
AUGUST 15, 2022
The first known NFT was minted in 2014 and since then has seen rapid growth. Non-fungible tokens have been designed to give you ownership of something that cannot be replicated or copied. The original creator of the NFT can still retain copyright and reproduction rights, just like any piece of physical artwork. What are NFTs?
The IPKat
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The Regulations also protect the rights of authors of an original applied or fine artwork to a share in the proceeds of sale of that work as long as copyright subsists. The warning came as a result of complaints from various artists and designers who assert that their works are being distributed on various platforms without benefitting them.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 18, 2022
NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. Although NFTs have been around since 2014, their far-reaching, multi-layered legal implications are just now being recognized.
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