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A New Brick in the Wall: Barcelona Commercial Court grants preliminary injunction against NFTs infringing copyright

LexBlog IP

Moreover, as raised by the claimant, further uses of the NFTs (such as their minting and trading) imply the exploitation of other economic rights of the author, i.e. the right of reproduction and communication to the public.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The defendant in that case had offered adapters for sale which enabled Nintendo games, that had been produced by third parties in circumvention of copy protection measures and downloaded from the internet, to be used on the Nintendo games console. This does require a violation of a due diligence obligation, however.