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Lil Yachty, UK Music Co. Reach Port With NFT TM Settlement

IP Law 360

million in venture capital funds for a line of non-fungible tokens, according to a brief filed Tuesday in California federal court. music company settled claims with Lil Yachty over the company's alleged use of the rapper's name without authorization to raise more than $6.5

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3 Count: Pulp Friction

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Jack Queen at Reuters reports that Miramax and director Quentin Tarantino have reached a settlement in their dispute over Pulp Fiction-based NFTs. The dispute began last year when Tarantino announced that he would sell several non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on the film Pulp Fiction.

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IP and NFTs: Where are We?

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Transfers of rights: How does the transfer of an NFT impact IP rights in the associated asset? Licensing of rights: How should IP rights in the associated asset be licensed in an NFT context? Infringement of rights: What is the appropriate infringement analysis where an NFT is associated with an asset covered by third-party IP?

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Who Owns the Copyright in AI-Generated Art?

Intepat

Copyright Office’s guidelines, but a settlement was reached in 2018. The settlement sidestepped the core question of Naruto’s copyright ownership and avoided setting a legal precedent. Some of his works have been sold as NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). appeared first on Intepat IP.

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Journey Through “Januarys” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

We have already traversed through Junes , Julys , Augusts , Septembers , Octobers , Novembers , Decembers , and shared some stories like Rahul Cherian’s Legacy, 2010’s International Efforts on Pandemics, Corruption in IP Offices, Law Making via Leaked Documents, etc. These cases continued to unfold, as detailed by Prashant here.

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Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute

SpicyIP

Abhijay Srekanth is an LLM candidate at the Queen Mary University of London specialising in IP, and a recent graduate of Jindal Global Law School. Non-fungible tokens (‘NFTs’) have occupied a significant space in current legal discourse, in no small part due to the numerous legal questions that have emerged in their wake.

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