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IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

IP Tech Blog

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. Is this the same in the US and China? If yes, under what circumstances?

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[Guest post] Navigating the high notes: Taylor Swift's copyright dispute

The IPKat

The role of US copyright law and economic rights As a signatory to the WPPT , the US grants performers economic rights to performances which are fixed in a sound recording. After all, making and using new recordings similar or even nearly identical to existing ones, are not infringing any US copyrights, as per art.

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

In that apology, Butz admitted he was “clearly ignorant about copyright laws and got defensive when it was brought to my attention.” ” The case raises questions of fair use and whether the new paintings were transformative enough to be non-infringing or if they were simply derivative works.

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IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

LexBlog IP

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. Is this the same in the US and China? If yes, under what circumstances?

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

(Readers who are already familiar with the facts of the case and the advantages of registration may skip to “Fraud on the Copyright Office” below.). Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.” 3d 1194 , 1196 (9th Cir.

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Maybe Duct Tape Can’t Fix Everything: Slippery Standards As Copyright Goes Bananas

LexBlog IP

Whether one focuses on the word’s connotation of silliness or excitement, or maybe even anger , or analogizes to the raucous and rhymingly-named team from Savannah that makes up its own baseball rules , US copyright law is currently going a little “bananas.” ” Said, Reforming Copyright Interpretation, 28 Harv.