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The Growing Popularity of NFTs: How to Protect Your NFT Personal Property Rights

LexBlog IP

Throughout this blog I present this issue through a legal lens, offering guidance and possible solutions to the industry. This is the unfortunate reality for most NFT projects: their artwork is entirely mutable which defeats the entire purpose of those NFTs. This is not only a future threat, it is already happening. What is an NFT?

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Ten things to know about NFTs

The IPKat

Digital assets can be protected by IP and have always been capable of being licensed or assigned via a contract, or protected as a trade mark. There have also been complaints where creators have tried to NFT their own creativity but by doing so have breached a contract. More on this next. Terms and Conditions Apply!

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Trademarks and the Metaverse: Imaginary Rights or Real Wrongs?

SpicyIP

Her previous posts on the blog can be viewed here, here , here , here and here. Hermes has sued a Californian artist, Mason Rothschild, for his “MetaBirkins” digital artworks alleging trademark infringement. Aparajita is a lawyer based in Bangalore. She works in a law firm that advises technology companies. Aparajita Lath.

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Prompt Authorship and Ownership: Clarifying Rights and Responsibilities

Intepat

The other two copyright rejections were the images in Kristina Kashtanova’s graphic novel (Zarya of the Dawn) and Jason Allen’s artwork which had substantial human input through the crafting of hundreds of prompts using the Midjourney text-to-image generator. Contracts should clearly state who owns the rights to the prompts.

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Role of Intellectual Property in Entertainment Industry

IIPRD

It gives authors and artists the sole ownership rights to their original writings, music, films, and artwork. Creators need to comprehend the fundamentals of copyright law to safeguard their creations and negotiate licensing and distribution contracts with skill.

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The first NFT copyright infringement decision handed down in China

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The case focused around a comic image depicting a chubby tiger receiving a vaccine shot, which was one of many artworks from the popular cartoon series “ Fat Tiger ” released on Weibo, China’s principal social media site, by a Chinese artist. Background. Shenzhen Qice Diechu Cultural Creativity Co.,

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UPDATE—New York Court Awards Statutory Prejudgment Interest to Grünbaum Estate’s Heirs

LexBlog IP

Under New York’s statutory prejudgment interest rules, an aggrieved party may recover prejudgment interest on a sum awarded because of a breach of contract or wrongful interference with title to, or possession or enjoyment of, property. [1] As previously reported on this blog , the Reif v. ” [2]. .” ” [2].

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