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Pricing Artwork with Borbay’s Contemporary Art Pricing Chart

Art Law Journal

Striking the right chord when pricing artwork is tricky to maneuver, especially because overpricing your work versus undervaluing yourself as an artist seems like it’s a very fine line. In 2012, when Borbay first established the guide, he had been working full-time as an artist for three years. Create Clarity When Pricing Artwork.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Furthermore, it is debatable whether the creation of NFTs can be considered “fair use”, since (i) this generates a “new” public and a new “digital” market for artworks that, to date, only existed in the real world and (ii) it deprives de facto copyright holders of a potential source of income.

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When Do Defendants Have Access to Copyrighted Works Posted to the Internet?–Cooley v. Target Corp.

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

None of the following works supported the access inference: Work #3: posted in 2012 to Facebook and got 10 likes, 2 comments, and 2 shares. Work #4: posted in 2012 to Instagram and got 92 likes and 11 comments. Work #8: posted to Facebook in 2012 and got 13 likes, 1 share, and 9 comments. Instead, the court summarizes: N.O.C.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Firstly, in conformity with the CJEU’s 2012 UsedSoft case, the exhaustion doctrine applies to first sales of computer software copies. Resale Rights Another notable difficulty when it comes to tokenising artworks is brought on by the resale right regime.

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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

One example was the November release of the Her Loss album by artists Drake and 21 Savage which included a fake Vogue magazine cover as part of the album artwork, as well as a fake version of Vogue magazine. 2012: [link]. The firm has registered more than 4,000 U.S. Past issues of Top Trademark Trends: 2021: [link]. 2020: [link].

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Spanish Court finds that virtual exhibition of NFTs based on paintings is "harmless use"

The IPKat

Background As previously reported by the IPKat last year, VEGAP, a collective management organisation for intellectual property rights in Spain, brought a claim against Punto Na SA, the IP holding company for the well-known clothing brand Mango, seeking compensation in respect of the alleged infringement of copyright in certain artworks.

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IP Osgoode Speaks Welcomes Dan Bereskin – Balancing Freedom of Expression with the Rights of IP owners

IPilogue

Mr. Bereskin astutely noted that Plesner’s artwork would have been less popular if LV had abstained from legal action. United Airlines filed a lawsuit in 2012 alleging IP infringement and confusion through the website which led people to believe that they are registering complaints with United Airlines themselves.

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