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Blurred Lines: How the Lack of Regulation of NFT Platforms Has Fueled Rampant Art Theft

IPilogue

Still, the straightforward process for creating non-fungible tokens (NFT) has accelerated the theft of digital art. Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT.

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

IP Tech Blog

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. So from our perspective, NFTs stands not only for “non-fungible tokens” but also “New Frontiers for Trademarks.”.

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

LexBlog IP

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. So from our perspective, NFTs stands not only for “non-fungible tokens” but also “New Frontiers for Trademarks.”

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U.S. Treasury Study Rejects Immediate Need for New Regulation of Art Market

LexBlog IP

15] We discuss below three areas that may be of particular interest to this blog’s readership: auction houses and galleries, online marketplaces, and non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”). ” [25] This is especially true on third-party sales websites (social media marketplaces, eBay, etc.),

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