The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

NFT creation, investment, sale, and ownership interest exists in Indonesia and elsewhere in the world. As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. Government Regulation No. Introduction. Image source: iStock]. data retention.

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Intepat

MAY 17, 2024

The other two copyright rejections were the images in Kristina Kashtanova’s graphic novel (Zarya of the Dawn) and Jason Allen’s artwork which had substantial human input through the crafting of hundreds of prompts using the Midjourney text-to-image generator. In such cases, it amounts to licensing of copyrightable works.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Nor is it clear whether—or how—NFTs might trigger liability under the 76-year-old federal Lanham Act , which governs trademark infringement and unfair competition. NFTs are units of data stored on a blockchain that signify ownership of (supposedly) unique digital media items.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that the Chinese government prohibits the transaction of virtual currencies, the Chinese market and users had to change this translation to avoid referring to crypto currencies as that could make NFTs illegal. Ownership and Enforcement. Copyright Ownership. Two ideas of ownership have emerged under copyrights.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

.” Ok, ok, it’s actually not that simple, which means now I get to wake you up from your NyQuil-fueled fever dream and be the killjoy who reminds you that the metaverse isn’t some kind of self-governing Florida special district in which real world laws don’t apply. You Should Probably Read The License.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Any issue of the NFT will be governed by this law, unless such Digital Assets fall under an exemption. Such offer can be made only on marketplaces/platforms for digital asset exchanges that are licensed by the SEC. In such cases, the actual author or creator of the specific work would retain copyright to the underlying work.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

There has been limited case law citing the section 9(3) and there remains some ambiguity and academic debate on the ownership of computer-generated works under English law. In this instance however the user generating the images was in Ireland and the online software model generating the images was hosted in the US.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

NFTs revolutionised the concept of ownership and digital art. Many aspiring artists have now started converting their physical and digital artworks into NFTs and putting it up for sale, with many making considerable profits. Since this is a new phenomenon, the lack of regulation result in NFTs operating in a legal vacuum.

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