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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Mango, in turn, sustained in its defence that (i) as the rightful owner of the physical Paintings, it was entitled to display them in public, and that (ii) the creation of digital works (i.e. Therefore, the moral right of “disclosure” had already been exhausted. an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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Spanish Court finds that virtual exhibition of NFTs based on paintings is "harmless use"

The IPKat

Background As previously reported by the IPKat last year, VEGAP, a collective management organisation for intellectual property rights in Spain, brought a claim against Punto Na SA, the IP holding company for the well-known clothing brand Mango, seeking compensation in respect of the alleged infringement of copyright in certain artworks.

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Bracing for Impact Keynote Address Tells a Copyright Story Never Told: Art and Copyright in Ghettos and Concentration Camps

IPilogue

Professor Lior Zemer, Dean at the Harry Radzyner Law School at Reichman University, began his presentation with Artwork of the Compiègne Concentration Camp by Abraham Joseph Berline created in 1941. Berline constructed it using egg shells from the scraps given to Jewish inmates as food and a wooden plate he found at the camp.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Fair Use Precedent?

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Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence Art

LexBlog IP

The growing popularity of art generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a question of whether it is morally right to replace human artists. How can this be considered an original artwork and who is the author?

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Ping® By AdlerLaw – Public Art & Social Media

LexBlog IP

However, in 5Pointz the building owner consented to the artwork installation. What if the social media account is used to promote the account owner’s own goods or services, or a third party’s brand? Copyright Law grants the author the exclusive rights to exploit the work, subject to certain fair use defenses.

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Book review: Copyright in the street. An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures

The IPKat

It emerges that brands should pay for the use of street artworks. The number of registrations with the US Copyright Office has been growing since the 1970s. The use of cease-and-desist letters is widespread too. Those artists are attached to their creations and to the right of attribution.

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