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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that?

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Tarantino Asks Court to Dismiss Miramax’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

The popularity of non-fungible tokens, NFTs for short, has reached new highs over the past year. Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a contract breach and copyright infringement. That turns copyright law on its head,” the lawyers write.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by Tumisu via Pixabay Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are altering society’s notion of digital ‘ownership’ and redefining the common perspective on distribution of original works to consumers by introducing scarcity to the digital realm. We address these questions in a two-part post.

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Creative Commons and NFTs – is CC licensing compatible with the new technologies?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Most of you may well be familiar with the concept of Creative Commons licensing, but to reiterate, Creative Commons (CC) is a not-for-profit copyright licensing organisation. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have become a buzzword in recent years.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet. These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

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IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

IP Tech Blog

The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. Copyrights in the US are protected under the U.S. Copyrights in the US are protected under the U.S. Copyright Act. IP Rights and NFTs.

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[Guest post] BAYC sues Ryder Ripps over unauthorized minting of NFTs

The IPKat

A digital file (an artwork, a song, etc.), The only thing that an NFT can certify is that a specific non-fungible token, containing a specific digital file linked to it, has been created with a unique transaction (having its own timestamp) by an identified blockchain address (i.e. remain fully applicable to NFTs.