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

The IPKat

If a new user re-registers a name whose registration is expired, a new token is created. However, and beyond the fact that the registration is expired, any name maintains in the blockchain its own history. McCoy’s registration on the Namecoin blockchain expired In January 2015. a jpeg) stored on the cloud. are applicable to it.

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Africa IP highlights 2023: Copyright

The IPKat

January: The year kicked off in Tanzania with the news that the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Tanzania received a report from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports addressing its efforts to review and improve the loopholes found in the Copyright Licensing and Rights to Benefit from Re-Sale Regulations, 2022.

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US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated work, finding that "human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection"

The IPKat

Registration was sought as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine. COPYRIGHT OFFICE, REPORT TO THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS BY THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS 5 (1966). First, held the Board, a machine cannot enter into any binding legal contract. were actually conceived and executed not by man but by a machine.”

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Analysing the Intersection of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Intellectual Property Rights

IP and Legal Filings

According to a report by Markets and Markets, the cryptocurrency market is expected to grow from USD 1.6 According to a report by Business Insider, more than half of the 100 largest banks in the world have already invested in crypto and blockchain-based companies. NFTs may be represented in the form of memes, artworks, or videos.

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Africa IP highlights 2021 #1: The copyright field

The IPKat

The Court of Appeal however found that there was enough evidence before the court to prove CPL’s ownership of the copyright in the artwork (as it had commissioned and paid for the artwork). It therefore held that Morison was also liable for copyright infringement of the artwork in the registered trademark.

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Paradise Lost: Human Involvement Still Required for “Creativity Machine’s” Work

LexBlog IP

The court then states plainly: “The [Copyright] Register did not err in denying the copyright registration application presented by plaintiff. 2] CONTU Report, Pub. Perlmutter , 1:22-cv-01564, 6 (D.D.C. United States copyright law protects only works of human creation” Id. photographs). 93-573, § 201(b)(2), 88 Stat.

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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. As of March 12, 2022, the USPTO TESS Database contained 2551 trademark applications or registrations using NFT in the goods/services descriptions.