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Can We Reexamine the Role of Blockchain in Copyright Now?

Plagiarism Today

Support derivative projects from the community pic.twitter.com/g4QnF6YZBp — Spice DAO (@the_spice_club) January 15, 2022. To be clear, this isn’t the first time blockchain and crypto promised that they would make artists’ lives easier or open up new opportunities, only to fail completely.

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First preliminary injunction issued by a court in Turkey regarding NFTs

The IPKat

Few issues in the world of intangible rights contain as many legal uncertainties as do non-fungible tokens. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ranging from art and literature to fashion and cinema, remain among the hottest legal topics in the world of intangible rights, despite the lack of clear legal regulation.

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A Year Since Hermès Verdict: The Tussle Between Trade Mark Rights and Artistic Freedom Continues

IP and Legal Filings

Secondly, it refused to recognize those non fungible tokens as an ‘Art’ and held them disentitled for any protection under the ‘First Amendment’. 09, 2022) [link] Jeremy S. 23, 2022) [link] Moish E. 23, 2022) [link] [5] Adi Robertson, Quentin Taratino Settles NFT Lawsuit with Miramax , THE VERGE (Sep.

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[Guest post] The NFT Hermés Case: Mainly Relevant for Large Collection of NFTs

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Grimaldi ) whereby the right to protect a registered trade mark (a protection given in the USA law essentially by the Lanham Act ), under some circumstances, cannot be enforced to detriment of “the right of others to express themselves freely in their own artistic work” (from the Rogers v. Grimaldi case).

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Fashion In The Metaverse : The Law And Protection

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright safeguards the original digital work and gives its creator some exclusive rights, such as the ability to duplicate and distribute the work. Therefore, if the specific artistic work sold as an NFT satisfies the specified conditions, such as originality and innovation, it may be qualified to be secured by copyright.

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IP and NFTs: Where are We?

LexBlog IP

On September 8, 2022, the parties filed a notice of settlement. January 2022: Rapper Lil Yachty (real name: Miles Parks McCollum) sues NFT seller Opulous for trademark infringement based on Opulous using his name and likeness as part of a “Lil Yachty NFT Collection” advertising access to his new music. Miramax, LLC v.

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IP infringement in Metaverse

IIPRD

As recently in 2022 Hermès, a fashion house sued Manson an NFT (non-fungible token) creator for trademark infringement who marketed a digital asset called “Metabirkins”, which was a digital copy of a bag created by Hermès, which sold at many high prices. This right is given to literary and artistic work like music, etc.

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