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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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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. These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

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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? The United States.

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Buying an NFT? You are not buying what you think.

Traverse Legal Blog

Today, we will be talking about NFT non-fungible token licensing. There was a recent story that is an instructive lesson in copyright law that has application to the NFT market. The article titled “Cryptobros spent $3 million on Dune book, believing it gave them copyright. The digital asset.

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

On September 23, the art site PokerPaint announced on their Twitter (Tweet now deleted) that they were releasing a series of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on OpenSea. In that apology, Butz admitted he was “clearly ignorant about copyright laws and got defensive when it was brought to my attention.”

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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. The brief further argued that the term METABIRKINS refers both “to the context in which he makes the art available (i.e.,

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

LexBlog IP

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? The United States.

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