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

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Last month, a study published by The Galaxy examined the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and found that, despite many understanding that NFTs transferred either the copyright or the license in the original work, only 1 in 25 of those projects even attempted to do as such. Finally, these licenses are limited to copyright only.

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

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Owning a copy of the book, regardless of how expensive, does not grant them the copyrights in it. The fact that so few copies exist means that burning it may run afoul of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) if the editions are signed and numbered. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that.

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NLUJ-CIPS Inter College IP Research Essay Writing Competition 2022 [Submit by March 10]

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All the submissions will be checked for plagiarism and those with plagiarism percentage over the permissible limit (i.e., The ownership over the copyright of the essay published on the CIPS Blog will be transferred to the CIPS Blog and the author shall still retain the moral rights over their work.

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