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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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Free Mickey? (Don’t Be Goofy)

LexBlog IP

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy.

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Oh Dear, Piglet, They Kept My Shirt!

IPilogue

Photo from Cooper Hewitt , Smithsonian Design Museum, 1926. Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. . While many were observing the new year, intellectual property scholars and the artistic community were celebrating Public Domain Day.

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Registered Copyrights and the Requisites for Registration

Intepat

Copyright, defined as the exclusive right granted to the creator for their intellectual labor, holds significance in the legal domain. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, copyright is acknowledged as a right in literary property, sanctioned by positive law. What is Registered Copyright?

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Cardinals Of Intellectual Property Rights (Part- II)

IP and Legal Filings

PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. In order to protect the same the laws should in tandem with the pace of technology. Original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works.

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Contradictions of Computer-Generated Works’ Protection

Kluwer Copyright Blog

If the computer somehow transcends its role as a tool in such a way that the purported human author cannot claim he created the output, we are dealing with computer-generated or emergent works. Such apparently creative outputs are not protectable as a matter of the American copyright law – or the law of the European Union (see Blaszczyk ).

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Copyright Protection of Modern Art

IP and Legal Filings

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. Picture Credit: gettyimage].

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