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My Concerns with the ‘Can’t Be Evil’ NFT Licenses

Plagiarism Today

The reason for that, as I pointed out in my article on the subject , was that NFTs were never about copyright and, instead, were about creating scarcity of digital goods. Exclusive Commercial Rights (ECR) : This one is the most straightforward. The original creator retains no exploitation rights. Bottom Line.

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Permissibility Of A Waiver Of Moral Rights Of An Author Under The Copyright Regime

IP and Legal Filings

Section 57 of the Copyright Act of 1957 covers authors’ special rights particularly, highlighting the importance of expanding such rights beyond solely economic grounds. These laws are based on Berne Convention Article 6bis, to which India is a signatory. Waiver of moral right of the author permissible?

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Crypto Group Buys Dune Book, Confuses it for Buying the Rights

Plagiarism Today

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that.

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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

And who poses moral rights in the work? Relying on theatrical studies and the empirical study, the chapter provides insights into the way that producers, directors, playwrights, and actors regulate – or choose not to regulate – disputes about copying. The monograph is presented in six chapters.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?

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[Guest post] Universal Copyright Convention – RIP

The IPKat

It foresaw both registration of the work at the Copyright Office, deposit of copies, attachment of a copyright claim (© [year of first publication] by [name of owner of rights]), and, in certain cases, manufacture of the copies within the country. Both Conventions contain provisions that regulate their relation to each other.

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Limitation period for copyright infringement actions in France

The IPKat

One of the disputed copies was exhibited in the gardens of the company Le potager des Princes, founded by Mr Bienaimé and located in Chantilly. Analysis The Cour de Cassation issued a brief but important decision here, focusing solely on the reading of article 2224 of the French Civil Code.