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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. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that?

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Following the 2012 revision to the copyrights Act, it was made clear that Internet activities were also covered by the copyright law. Parallel to this, Non-Fungible Tokens, often known as NFTs, have seen tremendous growth as more and more people enter the market.