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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This article provides a brief overview of the use of Creative Commons licensing in relation to NFTs based on the Creative Commons’ FAQ page linked above. Creative Commons Licensing. By purchasing an NFT one only purchases an actual digital token that normally contains a link to or a copy of a digital artwork.

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Jean Paul Gaultier, Birth Your Own Venus

IPilogue

Following this designation , objects require authorization and a licence fee to be used commercially by third parties regardless of whether the work is in the public domain. The public domain refers to works not protected by copyright, which means the works can be used without acquiring permission or paying a fee.

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Use Frida's Paintings? (Yes!) Use Frida's Name? (Maybe)

Dear Rich IP Blog

Mexican copyright law placed Kahlo's works in the public domain 25 years after her death, so you don't need authorization to include a photo of her painting in your film. The Kahlo name.

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Registering a trade mark even if you think that copyright is for losers? Not bad faith, says (finally) EUIPO BoA

The IPKat

Banksy's Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge A while ago The IPKat reported [ here and here ] on a string of cancellations of elusive artist Banksy ’s EU trade mark (EUTM) registrations relating to some of their best-known artworks. The reason?

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Unrequited love at the times of French maisons: the Museum vs Le Musée

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We have an artwork, displayed in a museum and which is in the public domain. Thus, not only it is for the authority taking care of the artwork (e.g. On the other hand, given that these artworks have already fallen in the public domain, in such a scenario there is no room for copyright to apply.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Licensing A more common approach for NFT creators and IP rights owners is to implement an NFT license agreement coded into a smart contract or specified in the online marketplace’s terms and conditions ( the middle-ground approach ).

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

The Art Newspaper has followed up on the ruling and the commentary, speculating on the potential implications thereof concerning the copyright status of digitized images of public domain artworks. The whole editorial is available here. More information and application details can be found here.