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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority had emphasised this in its April 2021 guidance on advertising cryptocurrencies.

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Open Access Book on Negotiating History of the WCT and WPPT by Dr. R.V.V. Ayyar

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Dr VRR Ayyar’s book, “Present at Creation: The Making of Internet Treaties (1996)”, published in 2021. And it’s published under a creative commons license, with the text available on his website here. There is however one stand-out entry that looks like it will be of interest to several of our readers.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. 10 of 2021, dated May 21, 2021. These classifications are then used, among other things, to establish what business licensing is necessary for a given industry. data retention.

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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It could be copyright infringement to continue serving photos from servers after the license expired. From the Copyright Office : The Copyright Office “does not recommend adopting additional copyright-like rights for press publishers in the United States. Vidal, 2021-2347 (Fed. . * Evox Productions, LLC v. 1:17CV2635 (N.D.

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Even if your name is as famous as Ronaldinho, the UK IPO cannot raise ex officio bad faith objections

The IPKat

Background In early 2021, Global Trademark Services Ltd (“GTS”) filed applications for the following marks in relation to ‘clothing, footwear, headgear’ in class 25: (UK Application No. The latter restricts the Registrar’s power to act pre-grant for the protection of section 5 rights. • Germany license. 3587268 and No.

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AI and copyright in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In 2021, OpenAI’s Dall·E was able to create images in response to text prompts, including those combining unrelated concepts (such as “a snail made of harp”), but the results were merely competent in artistic terms. Generative AI Computer-generated art reached a tipping point in 2022.

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UKIPO’s public consultation on AI and IP – computer-generated works (Part 1)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Running from 29 October 2021 to 7 January 2022, the “ Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents ” consultation formed the latest round in an ongoing national conversation between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and interested stakeholders (see here ). A third alternative: the related rights approach.

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