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

IP and Legal Filings

vii] NFTs are prone to “copyfraud” and other violations of the moral rights of the inventor. When someone mints an NFT on a public domain, they could falsely claim to be the owner of the original artwork’s copyrights. It is possible for someone to print the NFT while posing as the author of the piece.

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Analysing the Intersection of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Intellectual Property Rights

IP and Legal Filings

The NFT space also serves as a breeding ground for copyfraud and copyright infringement. Several individuals have been held for falsifying copyright ownership over a work that exists in the public domain. A smart contract may be used to transfer the copyrights that subsist on a digital artifact to the buyer.