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Miramax Files Lawsuit Against Quentin Tarantino For Sale Of Pulp Fiction NFTs

IPilogue

On November 16, 2021, Miramax filed a lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino for his planned auction of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on his original hand-written script of the film Pulp Fiction. Miramax argues that these reserved rights are far too narrow to allow Tarantino to unilaterally produce, market, and sell the NFTs.

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LimeWire to Return to Sell NFTs

Plagiarism Today

As such, the new LimeWiere will not be a file sharing network, but a marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), initially focusing on music. Even as the NFT market has grown to billions of dollars, public perception remains very low. If anything, it just further connects NFTs with piracy and lack of security/privacy.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Nepal

IP and Legal Filings

The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. The Privacy Act, which implemented the constitutional right to privacy, had a big influence on how personal information was used legally. A commodity is said to be fungible in economics if it can be exchanged for another unit of the same commodity without losing any value.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A. And why is that? We will have to keep an eye out for the second round.

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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. Also consider international markets. Market leaders cannot protect themselves from all knock-offs or commentary.

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The Rise of NFTs and Its Legal Complications

IP and Legal Filings

NFT stands for Non-Fungible Tokens. Crypto is fungible i.e., they can be traded; one for another however, NFTs are unique, and one can’t be equal to another. This whole process of commercially buying unique digital art in the form of non-fungible tokens is based on a public ledger called the Ethereum blockchain.

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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. Also consider international markets. Market leaders cannot protect themselves from all knock-offs or commentary.