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My Concerns with the ‘Can’t Be Evil’ NFT Licenses

Plagiarism Today

Last month, a study published by The Galaxy examined the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and found that, despite many understanding that NFTs transferred either the copyright or the license in the original work, only 1 in 25 of those projects even attempted to do as such. Understanding the “Can’t Be Evil” Licenses.

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Protecting Commercial AI Rights Is Harder Than You Think – EU Edition

Velocity of Content

As research organizations are typically publishers’ customers or using content available under open access licenses, STM publishers were generally supportive of this exception. After all, the TDM exception is an exception to allow very smart machines to “read” and process information, so isn’t anything on a website “machine readable?”

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Meeting of the Minds: The Price of Recklessness: Disgorgement of Pro?ts in a Post-Romag World

The IP Law Blog

All rights reserved. 34 Finally, when contracting with intellectual property rights holders, as Fossil did with Romag, U.S. companies that contract with Chinese manufacturers to produce goods that contain licensed components could be facing an increased need for protection from infringement by their Chinese partners.