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Will—and Should—VARA Cover NFTs?

JIPEL Copyright Blog

Non-fungible tokens, or “NFTs,” gained worldwide notoriety in the art world last year following the sale of Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: The First 5000 Days for a staggering $69 million at Christie’s. Increasingly, NFTs are being seen as a viable investment for art enthusiasts. Both rationales don’t necessarily translate to the NFT space.

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Canadian Perspectives on Artist Resale Rights

IPilogue

The Globe and Mail reported on August 7, 2022 that Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez are working on reforming the Copyright Act to include an artist resale right (ARR) within the scope of the act’s protections. Not all Canadian galleries oppose ARRs.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

The IPKat

PermaKat Neil Wilkof commented on the reproduction of the work of art " Detail from the Portrait of Eugénie-Pamela Larivière" (which is in the public domain) by Louis Larivière in the Louvre, Paris" on a book cover. Reminder: last call to vote for your best IP book of 2021 by participating in the poll here !

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

In April 2022, the EU Commission's impact assessment report looking at the situation of CIPs in the EU showed that the lack of an adequate legal regime " creates a disincentive to investment in traditional crafts in the EU, adding up to increased costs and legal uncertainty for producers ". What are the next steps?

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IPSC Panel 14 – Copyright Authorship & Ownership

43(B)log

Twain called it “a curiously strong piece of literary work to come unpremeditated from lips untrained in the literary art.” Copyright Office had a report on contributions to periodicals in the 1960s—there was an old case saying that there was no ©, which made everyone unhappy. Deals with © and moral rights, first sale, users rights.

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Thomas and Henrietta Maria Bowdler, and the works of William Shakespeare: Is "bowdlerizing" a four-letter word?

The IPKat

Unauthorized changes to a text reside in the murkier confines of the copyright system, where, at most, moral rights may hold court. The article reports that in the first edition, about 10% of the text was removed, with particular attention to avoid any whiff of religious irreverence. How well do they do?

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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

43(B)log

Feist cites INS for proposition that the “news element” is not the creation of the writer but the report of the history of the day which is public property. But INS continues—not in the quote—to allow a limited property right in news of the day. Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors. Feist cites INS v.