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[Guest post] Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse?

The IPKat

Now, a further development on IP and NFTs comes from Spain, as Katfriend Mercedes Morán Ruiz (CEDRO) reports: Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse? Moreover, it seems that MANGO also transformed the original works, including new elements on them, and displayed the output on OpenSea.

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Tennessee Adopts Landmark Law To Protect Artists Against AI

IP Law 360

Bill Lee signed into law Thursday a first-of-its-kind legislation intended to tackle misuse of artificial intelligence by modifying a state law banning unauthorized copies of artists' works to cover musicians, their voices and their songs. Tennessee Gov.

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New Tenn. Bill Would Extend AI Laws To Musicians

IP Law 360

A recently introduced bill in Tennessee would modify the state's laws banning unauthorized copies of artists' works to cover musicians, their voices and their songs.

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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright And Copyright Law Copyright is one of the crucial parts of Intellectual Property Rights which helps the owner of any creative work to have a legal right over the possession of such work or art. Case Laws The first case in this regard is UTV Software Communication Limited v. and Ors.

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Emerging Trends In Digital Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

People have become less dependent on print media and more likely to use a digital medium such as computerized documents of soft copies. Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works.

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Parody under the Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

This issue was cleared in Civic Chandran case wherein the Court held that ‘the purpose of reproduction of artistic work i.e., counter drama was not misappropriation, to produce a play similar to the original. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The post Parody under the Copyright Law first appeared on IPLF.

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Amicus of copyright law professors in Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith

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Summary of argument: If the meaning of artistic works were objective, an art appreciation class would be like a standard math class: It would have only right and wrong answers. The solution is not to reject one reasonable view in favor of another—that would be the very aesthetic discrimination the law has long rejected.