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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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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

Come with this Kat for a stroll around this week’s posts from IP blogs. This week, a controversy involving a famous Hollywood actor damaging one of Banksy’s artworks has taken the news and Aaron Moss, on Copyright Lately, discusses the possibility of Banksy suing the actor based on infringement of his (?) moral rights.

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

IPilogue

On November 9, IP Osgoode, Reichman University and Microsoft hosted the first in-person Bracing for Impact Conference since 2019. The speakers at IP Osgoode’s Bracing for Impact Conference: The Future of AI for Society told many stories and pondered many questions. Photo by Buda Photography.

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Analyzing relationship between Contemporary art and Intellectual Property Rights

IIPRD

The number of artworks bought and sold throughout the world increased to almost 40 million in 2018 from around 39 million the year before, providing further evidence of this trend. in addition to protecting the rights of creators, such legislation may help ensure that artists are compensated fairly for their efforts.

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Growth of Virtual Youtubers and IP Complications

IIPRD

1] However, this growth also brought an onslaught of new Intellectual Property (IP) issues. Legal Pitfalls in Virtual World The character design used by a content creator can be designed by an artist, and rights can be transferred from the artist to the creator.

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Uffizi museum sues Jean Paul Gaultier over unauthorized reproduction of Botticelli’s Venus on fashion garments

The IPKat

Not a copyright dispute … and the non-role of Article 14 of the DSM Directive In sum: the CHC provides a way to control for-profit reproductions of Italian cultural heritage, irrespective of their copyright status (it is in any case worth recalling that under Italian copyright law moral rights protection is … perpetual).

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Copyright Ownership with Independent Contractors

Sander Law

When hiring an independent contractor to design your logos, artwork and take photographs, it is important to think about who actually owns the copyright in the resulting work. Moral Rights. Although the initial creator of the work can assign their copyright to another entity, they cannot assign the associated Moral Rights.