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[Guest post] Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse?

The IPKat

Now, a further development on IP and NFTs comes from Spain, as Katfriend Mercedes Morán Ruiz (CEDRO) reports: Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse? This would not be the case if the work were in the public domain or if it could be considered an orphan work owned by a museum or a library.

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AIs Don’t Learn Jack S**t About Art

The Illusion of More

While people may continue to debate whether robots dream of electric sheep, let us please stop entertaining the notion that AIs “learn from artistic works the same way human artists learn” to make art.

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Computer-Generated Electronic Images & The Article of Manufacture Requirement: The USPTO Declines to Extend Subject Matter Eligibility to “Disembodied” Designs

LexBlog IP

In response to public comments submitted in response to its request thereof regarding the “article of manufacture” requirement for design patent eligibility appearing in Title 35, United States Code, Section 171 , and as explained in our previous post , the U.S. a)(I) ] but provides important clarifications.” ” 80 Fed.

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The protection of fashion and applied art under criminal law: the Supreme Court rules on the Desigual case

Garrigues Blog

One interpretation considered that article 270 of the CC only protected the artistic work taken individually, but not when it was included on a product intended for commercial use (clothing, handbags, purses and other items). Consequently, works applied to practical products were not protected under criminal law.

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Protecting Fashion or Stifling Innovation

IIPRD

It is here that the distinction between ‘design’ in the Designs Act and ‘artistic work’ in the Copyright Act becomes relevant. This is evidenced as an artistic work enjoys protection throughout the life of the author plus sixty years; whereas a design only enjoys protection for 10 years from registration.

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Protection of Jewelry in India: Copyright or Design?

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright protection is extendable to any artistic work that is original and is creative. Section 2(c) of the Copyright Act defines what “artistic work” is. This “artistic work” includes any drawing regardless of whether it possesses any artistic quality, and also includes any other works of artistic craftsmanship.

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Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? 

SpicyIP

This post only deals with copyrightability of fonts from artistic work perspective and does not explore the copyrightability of fonts as code or literary works. Scaria and George in their article Copyright and Typefaces (p.9) In the digital age, word processing programs have made the distinction obsolete and arcane.

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