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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

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Parallel to this, Non-Fungible Tokens, often known as NFTs, have seen tremendous growth as more and more people enter the market. v] Prior to the development of NFTs, artists depended on non-traditional legal and financial frameworks to drive the art market.

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IP infringement in Metaverse

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As recently in 2022 Hermès, a fashion house sued Manson an NFT (non-fungible token) creator for trademark infringement who marketed a digital asset called “Metabirkins”, which was a digital copy of a bag created by Hermès, which sold at many high prices. This can a lesson for the companies interested in the metaverse.

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Analysing the Intersection of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Intellectual Property Rights

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According to a report by Markets and Markets, the cryptocurrency market is expected to grow from USD 1.6 Apart from this, Non-Fungible Tokens, the brainchild of Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash, is a unit of data stored in a digital ledger that certifies that the digital asset is unique and is hence non-interchangeable.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 23 – 29)

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s copyright and registered trademark by thrusting its deceptively similar goods and flooding the high-in-demand but low-in-knowhow market, with its imitation products. The Delhi High Court in Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd & Anr v. The Defendant Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. August 23, 2021].