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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These questions will be addressed by applying UK law and the EU copyright acquis to NFTs, as illustrated by relevant Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) case law and global contemporary examples. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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Copyright Protection of Photographs: a Comparative Analysis Between France, Germany and Italy

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . As is known, originality has always been the essential requirement of copyright law, and only works that show some minimum amount of this attribute usually fall within the scope of protection.

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Role Of Intellectual Property Rights In The Era Of Quantum Technology

IIPRD

For instance, which current governing law would apply to quantum governing technology? What kinds of IP related rights would apply to quantum computing technology? QUANTUM COMPUTING AND THE FUNCTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS. The reason is that the latter is a part of public domain and will be open-sourced.

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UKIPO’s public consultation on AI and IP – computer-generated works (Part 1)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On behalf of the University of Nottingham Commercial Law Centre (UNCLC) , we submitted a response to the consultation that addressed the three areas of potential legislative change. A decrease in such copyright protections does not contradict the consultation’s policy objectives of incentivising investment and enabling competitive markets.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

There will also be panels on CJEU and General Court case law, judicial approaches to parasitic competition, and international design protection strategies. Its massive use brings legal consequences for classic IP rights and offers real challenges in particular to trade marks, copyright and related rights and patents.

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AI and IP – to legislate or not? UKIPO’s public consultation seeks evidence

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP. That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.

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Unrequited love at the times of French maisons: the Museum vs Le Musée

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Lame comparisons apart, this story is interesting as it is an opportunity to discuss the protectability of artistic works under Italian laws. We have an artwork, displayed in a museum and which is in the public domain. This is exactly the case here. This is for two reasons, as pointed out by E. Second, Art.

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