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NFT Copyright License Rights: Due Diligence is Critical.

Traverse Legal Blog

You’ll also get digital collectible album artwork. You will provide the NFT attached to your private key to Kings of Leon to receive your artwork, your album, and your digital download link. On the Kings of Leon NFT sale site, you can identify the owner and other due diligence information. ” Enrico Schaefer.

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Blurred Lines: How the Lack of Regulation of NFT Platforms Has Fueled Rampant Art Theft

IPilogue

Artists in the digital space have always been vulnerable to the unauthorized distribution, copying, and sale of their work. Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT.

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Copyrighting the Ogopogo Monster: The © story behind the news story

The IPKat

There were 18 registered copyrighted works related to the Ogopogo, including books, posters, artwork, videos (in some cases, supposedly of the creature itself) and dramatic works. Unfortunately, while CIPO’s database records registration, it has no copy of what was registered. And the database only goes back to 1991.

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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. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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Why intellectual property rights are important for startups seeking funding from investors

LexBlog IP

This can include inventions, designs, artwork, and even brand names and slogans. The purpose of intellectual property law is to provide a legal framework to protect these creations from being copied or stolen. Investors and Due Diligence. Common forms of Intellectual Property for businesses.

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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

archival fonds shall not be subject to the same remuneration as unique artworks, as advocated by scholars ). GLAM, in jurisdictions where digitized copies are copyrightable, should attempt to negotiate the necessary licenses with the initial rights holders to allow exploitation of these images by the public. Proposal 4. Proposal 8.

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

Traverse Legal Blog

NFTs are being used to store smart contracts and authentication for digital artwork and other digital assets. That signed painting is going to be worth a lot more than a print copy or an unsigned version of that painting. People will bid on an NFT, a non-fungible token, associated with a piece of digital artwork.