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Creative Commons and NFTs – is CC licensing compatible with the new technologies?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This article provides a brief overview of the use of Creative Commons licensing in relation to NFTs based on the Creative Commons’ FAQ page linked above. Creative Commons Licensing. The ownership of an NFT is recorded in the blockchain, and can be transferred by the owner, allowing NFTs to be sold and traded ”.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by Tumisu via Pixabay Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are altering society’s notion of digital ‘ownership’ and redefining the common perspective on distribution of original works to consumers by introducing scarcity to the digital realm.

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms?

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What Copyright’s “Unclaimable Material” Rules Mean for Hollywood’s Use of AI

Copyright Lately

Material that is in the public domain. Think of human modifications to AI as a quasi-derivative work—the copyright in a derivative work only extends to the material contributed by the author of that work , as opposed to the underlying material. Previously registered material.

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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

43(B)log

By defining purpose only as licensing image of Prince—use in a well-structured conventionalized market—the majority gets to be dismissive of the dissent; it doesn’t matter how much Warhol contributed b/c he created a substantially similar image which is now competing with her photograph. Your answer was that the two works didn’t compete.

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WIPIP Concurrent Session #5 Copyright & Culture

43(B)log

Hughes: increasing registrations for women at the © office compared to other metrics where women are disadvantaged—ownership of stock, real property, presence on corporate boards, patent ownership which then translates to being in a startup. Identifying race of plaintiffs: didn’t prove that difficult; most figures are public.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. 105 , as a “work of the United States Government”? Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves?

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