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My Concerns with the ‘Can’t Be Evil’ NFT Licenses

Plagiarism Today

In a blog post published last week and covered by Adi Robertson at The Verge yesterday , the firm is introducing what it calls “Can’t Be Evil” (CBE) licenses, a series of licenses that can be affixed to NFTs to clearly indicate what rights the NFT creator transfers to the buyer. The idea is fairly simple. Bottom Line.

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When Doors Close, A Market Grows: Museums, COVID-19, and Cultural Digitisation

IPilogue

For North American museums with works still under copyright, the 2017 publication Guidelines for the Use of Copyrighted Materials and Works of Art by Art Museums by the Association of Art Museum Directors will come in handy. However, many of the masterpieces housed by museums are in the public domain.

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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 implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The creation of AR experiences may involve acts of reproduction and communication to the public that have potential copyright implications. AR can concern two categories of cultural goods – those that are in the public domain and those embedding a copyrighted work of art. . (i) i) Public domain works.

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Cardinals Of Intellectual Property Rights (Part- II)

IP and Legal Filings

The blog is divided into two parts and this is part 2 of the blog. PART 1: of the blog discussed about history, development, fundamentals of IPR and explained Patents and Trademarks. This blog will consider different IPs, which are at growing stage. The need of protecting IPRs is inarguably increasing day by day.

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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

In a 2017 blog post, Schneider described YouTube as a Wood Chipper on Steroids , complaining that when MP3s are uploaded to YouTube, they are converted into a different format and in the process, all metadata – Copyright Management Information – is lost. The Eleventh Circuit opinion can be found here (pdf). ——-.

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YouTube/Cyando – Lessons for the Egyptian Copyright Legislator

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Leastways, the purpose of this blog is not to further analyse or scrutinise the YouTube/Cyando ruling (for a detailed analysis see here , here and here ), but rather to endeavour to highlight its significance and impact beyond the European borders. Hence, the ECL allocates right holders a wide bundle of exclusive rights (art.

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