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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? of the Museum District and uploaded on the OpenSea marketplace. MANGO is owner of the original paintings. 5/08, paragraph 56; C?435/12,

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Andersen v. Stability AI: Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Narrows the Case, But Only Slightly

JD Supra Law

In the lawsuit brought against them for using visual artists' work to teach their large language model, and producing near-identical copies in response to prompts, Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI moved to dismiss almost all of the claims asserted against them. .

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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.

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Legal Protection for the Software Arts — Part 5

JD Supra Law

Copyright protection is, generally speaking, formality-free in the US and other member states of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. By: Kidon IP

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Dispute on Copyright and Creativity

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): This law protects against unauthorized digital copying and distribution. Record labels argue that AI developers infringe on copyright when using their catalog for training without authorization. AI-generated content that replicates copyrighted music may violate DMCA provisions.

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Choosing the Right Intellectual Property Protection

IIPRD

All the creations of the human minds such as designs, inventions, artistic works, names, symbols, etc. Copyright Copyright refers to the exclusive rights granted to the authors or performers for their original work or performance like book, film, paintings, compute programmes, etc. Key Features: The work must be original.

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Protection of Jewellery under Intellectual Property Rights

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Section 2(c) of the Copyright Act 1957 states that a copyright covers what is referred to as an artistic work, when interpreted in relation to the protection of jewellery through intellectual property, it may be deemed that the initial artistic sketch on which the design is based will be subject to copyright protection.