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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. 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.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Parallel to this, Non-Fungible Tokens, often known as NFTs, have seen tremendous growth as more and more people enter the market. As a result, the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 grants the owner of the artwork or the licensee sole rights to discharge copyrights that have already accrued under the statute.