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[Guest post] Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse?

The IPKat

Now, a further development on IP and NFTs comes from Spain, as Katfriend Mercedes Morán Ruiz (CEDRO) reports: Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse? Pending that, this cat lover (and dog lover, and also lover of NFTs) wonders about the following few issues. 5/08, paragraph 56; C?435/12,

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Ownership of Copyrights Patents and Trademarks are Created by Employees and Independent Contractors

IP and Legal Filings

The documents which are certified by the Registrar of Copyright can be presented in the court of law as evidence, in case of the original work cannot be presented for the time being. This may be for a limited period and is only limited to publishing, rendering left of the ownership to the author. 483 (2001) ). Tasini, 533 U.S.

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Choosing the Right Intellectual Property Protection

IIPRD

All the creations of the human minds such as designs, inventions, artistic works, names, symbols, etc. These rights include exclusive ownership benefits and rights against any misuse, alteration, modification etc. of their work for a fixed period. are intellectual properties owned by individuals and/or businesses.

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Urban places as a stage and the CGI and VFX trend: Using buildings in videos to make the ordinary extraordinary

The IPKat

Under the Copyright Act, 1978 (the Copyright Act), artistic works in the form of buildings and models and drawings, artistic and technical designs and specifications, relating to those buildings, are eligible for copyright protection.

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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights: the USPTO DABUS decision

Barry Sookman

According to the court, which relied on the Australia Telstra decision, the data was protected as an original literary and artistic work: Clearly a human author is required to create an original work for copyright purposes. Unigate Enter., 3d 1169, 1173 (9th Cir. 2017) (quoting Torah Soft Ltd. Drosnin, 136 F.