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

IP and Legal Filings

An illustration of this idea is that, unless the owner of the copyright expressly grants such a right in writing, a buyer of a sculpture only receives the right to exhibit it, not to make copies of it or derivative works. vii] NFTs are prone to “copyfraud” and other violations of the moral rights of the inventor.

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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

43(B)log

Wheaton is about no federal perpetual copyright, but it is also about what is common/public property as opposed to private property. The only mention in leg history of facts refers to the sweat of the brow doctrine. Karp agrees that (c) is not like land, which preexisted the public domain and was acquired and distributed by gov’t. (c)