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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. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that? an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

The IPKat

As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. There, it was presented as an original Koons artwork of which three copies exist.

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Crypto Group Buys Dune Book, Confuses it for Buying the Rights

Plagiarism Today

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that.

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Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Part 1 of this post outlines the technology, its applications in the cultural heritage sector and the potential copyright implications. Part 2 discusses the relevant copyright exceptions and limitations that interfere with the development of AR experiences. Copyright implications of AR in the cultural heritage sector.

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Spanish Court finds that virtual exhibition of NFTs based on paintings is "harmless use"

The IPKat

In a recent decision (original Spanish here: link ) Barcelona's Ninth Mercantile Court (the Court) ruled in favour of Mango in a lawsuit brought against it by the Spanish copyright society VEGAP over the creation of NFTs based on the works of three well-known Catalan artists, finding that Mango could rely on available defences.

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IPSC Panel 14 – Copyright Authorship & Ownership

43(B)log

McFarlin, A Copyright Ignored? Taking him at his word: Did Twain infringe her common-law copyright? Twain gave her a signed & inscribed copy after publication, which descendants donated to UMd decades back. Unsettled; hard to say Cord & family intentionally or even negligently sat on their rights. Seems unlikely.

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

The IPKat

As such, mechanical reproduction can never be authentic, nor can a copy ever be perfect, because it is detached from its aura. The copyright lawyer might well respond with a glazed look. Copyright law developed to protect the commercial potential of (literary) works in an age of multiple reproduction. But of course.

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