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NFT Copyright License Rights: Due Diligence is Critical.

Traverse Legal Blog

My name is Enrico Schaefer, I am a technology attorney with traverse legal PLC, and today I want to talk about nonfungible tokens or NFTs. Blockchain and blockchain technology is in the spotlight right now. You’ll also get digital collectible album artwork. Copyright Licensing of Digital Assets Attached to NFT Sales.

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Croatia’s Coin Copycat Controversy

Plagiarism Today

Users on Twitter began to notice similarities between Pranjkovic’s artwork and a photograph taken by Scottish photographer Iain Leach. Even if you bring in all the experts possible and even with unparalleled transparency and even with the best technology, things can slip through. The Croatian central bank clearly failed there.

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

IPilogue

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. Third, consumers should do their due diligence by reaching out to artists to verify the authenticity of the NFT before purchasing.

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

Traverse Legal Blog

I am an attorney specializing in blockchain technology. Due diligence is critical. Copyrights protection for the artwork itself is also critical. Any NFT project offering Apes are derivative of the artwork for the Bored Ape yacht CLub are potentially infringing the BAYC’s copyrights.

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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. People will bid on an NFT, a non-fungible token, associated with a piece of digital artwork. Sometimes they’re not going to get what they paid for, or the digital artwork will disappear. Bring in the Lawyers.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Although frequently misconstrued, this technology represents an exceptional advancement that can yield enormous revenue streams for both creators and consumers by altering the digital representation of real-world assets. 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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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

LexBlog IP

NFTs are unique tokens based on blockchain technology and used as digital assets. 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. .” Brand owners have already begun to catch up.