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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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[Part I] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from ‘Gaslighting’ Design

SpicyIP

The case arose from Inoxs claim that Cryogas copied proprietary engineering drawings for cryogenic storage tanks (mounted on trailers for transporting liquid gases). Cryogas (and a co-defendant) countered with Section 15(2) of the Copyright Act, 1957 proviso that bridges (and barricades) the realms of copyright and design law.

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[Part II] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from ‘Gaslighting’ Design

SpicyIP

The court (Justice Gautam Patel) reasoned that Section 15(2) only talks about designs, not artistic works and the Designs Act explicitly excludes artistic works from the definition of design. The upshot was that those drawings, not being designs, could retain copyright as artistic works (since 15(2) didnt apply to them).

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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.