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NFT Copyright License Rights: Due Diligence is Critical.

Traverse Legal Blog

An NFT is a Smart Contract, meaning that it embeds specific basic contract terms in the NFT metadata that goes onto the blockchain. That Smart Contract, that token that can have unique data associated with it. You’ll also get digital collectible album artwork. “Who’s the owner? ” Enrico Schaefer.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The ‘ Dune’ scenario is a well-known ‘tale of crypto folly’ featuring NFT purchasers who failed to exercise appropriate due diligence in determining what rights are granted when procuring an NFT. Copyright that is transferred upon selling an NFT may explicitly be outlined in the self-executing smart contract governing the sale.

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Fatal Mistakes Made By The ‘Bored Ape Yacht Club’ & ‘Crypto Punks’ NFT Projects

Traverse Legal Blog

Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). Due diligence is critical. They require both chain of tile and a contract setting forth the seller and buyers’ essential contract terms.

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

LexBlog IP

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. NFTs are unique tokens based on blockchain technology and used as digital assets.

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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

use of indigenous content, model contracts and/or national laws on limitations and exceptions). archival fonds shall not be subject to the same remuneration as unique artworks, as advocated by scholars ). No liability of GLAM if they comply with certain due diligence steps (akin to “safe harbor right statement“).

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

IP Tech Blog

NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame. NFTs are unique tokens based on blockchain technology and used as digital assets.

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NFT Lawyer: Legal Risks with ‘Non-Fungible Tokens’

Traverse Legal Blog

A non-fungible token allows you to put a smart contract onto the blockchain that is unique unto itself. Different types of information can be stored on a blockchain including ledger information and smart contracts. NFTs are being used to store smart contracts and authentication for digital artwork and other digital assets.