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[Guest post] BAYC sues Ryder Ripps over unauthorized minting of NFTs

The IPKat

On 24 June 2022, BAYC sued Ryder Ripps, a conceptual artist and NFT creator for trade mark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, cybersquatting and other cause of actions before the Central District of California. NFTs – still subject to “old” IP law An NFT is a non-fungible (i.e. A digital file (an artwork, a song, etc.),

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Sci-Hub Founder’s High Court Creativity Fails to Dismiss Publishers’ Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

On one hand, unauthorized mass copying and distribution of movies, TV shows, and music is widely recognized as copyright infringement. Based on the assertion that the assignment agreements relied upon by the publishers do not confer ownership of copyrights relating to the allegedly infringed works, Elbakyan declared them void.

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Google Requests Default Judgment Against DMCA Scammers

TorrentFreak

In addition, they committed contract breach under California law. This alleged behavior wasn’t well hidden either, as defendants allegedly promoted their abuse scheme on YouTube in a video blatantly titled: “2022 SEO 3 minutes to take top 1 google by Fake DMCA complaints”. A copy of the proposed order can be found here (pdf).

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Can We Reexamine the Role of Blockchain in Copyright Now?

Plagiarism Today

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive. One potential use is Safe Creative’s.

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Study on Copyright and Scientific Publications: Encouraging Access and Re-use

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. National copyright contract rules imposing limitations on the licensing of copyright in future works may obstruct OA mandates.

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Tokenization of intellectual property for IP rights management

The IPKat

Tokenization of IP In a nutshell, "tokenization" means using a smart contract (i.e., By using asymmetric cryptography it is secured that only the owner can transfer the access rights and that the access rights cannot be copied.) The process of creating a digital asset with a smart contract is called "minting". a MIT license ).

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[Guest post] Free Holdings case raises important issues regarding the legal nature of NFTs

The IPKat

Ownership of every name periodically expires and, at that point, anyone may freely claim it on Namecoin by re-registering the expired name. The legal nature of an NFT In each NFT there is a non-fungible token created by the smart contract and an image (e.g., a jpeg) stored on the cloud. the jpeg) to which it is attached?