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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by Tumisu via Pixabay Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are altering society’s notion of digital ‘ownership’ and redefining the common perspective on distribution of original works to consumers by introducing scarcity to the digital realm.

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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

Such works of art benefit the creator, and they are protected by the law of intellectual property. Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet.

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

The IPKat

The only thing that an NFT can certify is that a specific non-fungible token, containing a specific digital file linked to it, has been created with a unique transaction (having its own timestamp) by an identified blockchain address (i.e. Yuga Labs, therefore, still owns the copyright in each NFT.

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IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

IP Tech Blog

The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. Is this the same in the US and China?

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

IP Tech Blog

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. So from our perspective, NFTs stands not only for “non-fungible tokens” but also “New Frontiers for Trademarks.”.

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NFTs: New Frontiers for Trademarks

LexBlog IP

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. This is highlighted in the case of Hermès International v. NFTs also may embody or use trademarks.