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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Nepal

IP and Legal Filings

Early in 2019, the Nepali government proposed a comprehensive IT Bill to replace the current Electronic Transaction Act. However, as artwork typically cannot be duplicated exactly and cannot be swapped with another without losing or gaining value, it is non-fungible. NFTs are viewed as the future of ownership by enthusiasts.

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A Tale of Reconciliation: The Australian Way

IPilogue

He designed the Flag in 1971 as a symbol of Indigenous resilience and representation. Provisions for copyright ownership by the Crown are a consistent feature of copyright laws in commonwealth countries. These provisions have been used to retain Crown ownership over literary, artistic, or otherwise creative expressions.

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Africa IP highlights 2021 #1: The copyright field

The IPKat

CPL had a registered trademark in the word “Conphamol” and the design of the product packaging. The Court of Appeal however found that there was enough evidence before the court to prove CPL’s ownership of the copyright in the artwork (as it had commissioned and paid for the artwork).

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Can AI-generated works be protected by copyright? No, according to US Copyright Office.

CopyrightsWorld

The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States. Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office. .”

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Is it possible to protect AI-generated works with copyright? According to the US Copyright Office, no.

CopyrightsWorld

The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States. Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office. .”

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US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated work, finding that "human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection"

The IPKat

In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim. Secondly, the doctrine is about ownership, not existence of a valid copyright. The application stated that the Work had been autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine.

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Generative AI, Digital Constitutionalism and Copyright: Towards a Statutory Remuneration Right grounded in Fundamental Rights – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). In 2019, the U.S. Deepbrain AI , Veed.io ).

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