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Contract Negotiation Tips for Visual Artists

Art Law Journal

What questions should you be asking in contract negotiation, and what provisions should you be reviewing? Not every item must be in the contract, but it will be too late to add anything to make the loss as comprehensive as possible once you sign. Is the contract for my whole series or just specific pieces? Making Your Checklist.

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Beyond the Frames – How Sustainable is Digital Art?

IPilogue

More recently, we have seen digital art open doors for artists to experiment with conceptual artwork like never before. But before we all scatter to “NFTize” our souls, we need to address some legal issues surrounding the overall sustainability of digital artworks. Are smart contracts “smart” enough?

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For the Avoidance of Doubt: The Authors Guild Provides Guidance on Addressing AI in Licensing Contracts

JD Supra Law

Modern AI, powered by what is known as “large language models,” is able to churn out original artwork, text, music, and even dubious legal advice. It works by processing and “learning” from an expansive dataset of material. In human terms, imagine. By: Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

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[Guest post] 'Can't Be Evil' NFT license - A tentative NFT worldwide license standard

The IPKat

The NFT art market, that is NFTs which specifically link an artwork or a digital file (a song, for example), have already gone mainstream and, of course, artists and projects owners have asked lawyers to prepare IP licenses to protect their IP. Let alone was it clear how to protect the IP rights in the artwork linked to it.

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[Guest post] Free Holdings case raises important issues regarding the legal nature of NFTs

The IPKat

The entire history of the name can be seen here ) On May 28, 2021, McCoy minted another NFT to record the Quantum artwork, this time on the Ethereum blockchain. The legal nature of an NFT In each NFT there is a non-fungible token created by the smart contract and an image (e.g., a jpeg) stored on the cloud. are applicable to it.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Nevertheless , tokens may be used in a digital rights management scheme, as the aforementioned default position is subject to contract modification, as explained below. Copyright that is transferred upon selling an NFT may explicitly be outlined in the self-executing smart contract governing the sale. Valid Transfer of Rights?

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Print-on-Demand Services Face More Legal Woes–Canvasfish v. Pixels

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

These defense-favorable outcomes may work in the short term; but they leave open the potential liability of the contracting vendors (which may drive them out of the industry, leaving the marketing agent with no one to outsource to) and as well as the marketing agent’s possible secondary liability exposure for the vendors’ activities.

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