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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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The Photography Show: your questions answered

Intellectual Property Office Blog

The IPO Business Engagement team frequently attends trade shows and business events across the UK to support sectors and advise on different aspects of intellectual property. It was remarkable to see the incredible new technology on display and how intellectual property was being used to protect inventions and works.

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Hacking Fashion Week: IP Guide to Survival

LexBlog IP

The limitation with an unregistered design is that it merely confers the right to prevent third parties from using a design only when it occurs as a consequence of the copying the protected design. Unfair competition may protect your fashion items against copying in two scenarios.

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11th Circuit affirms Viacom's Rogers-based win for MTV Floribama Shore

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The Lounge has been in operation since 1964 and has gained regional fame by hosting many entertainment and athletic events.” Flora-Bama logo The Flora-Bama has been featured in artistic works by third parties. Deliberate copying was irrelevant. Yet both artists won.” The court of appeals affirms, on Rogers v.

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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

The IP Law Blog

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. It also protects images, photos, videos, and other written work, such as blog posts. Making a copy of a video or audio recording.

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Fashion Copyright and Infringement

IP and Legal Filings

However, even then, the degree of novelty required in work was not so low as to allow everyone to get copyright protection for their artistic work. In this paradigm-shifting judgment, the Court introduced the principle of “ minimum requirement of creativity ” in order to acquire copyright protection over an artistic work.

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[Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works

The IPKat

Does UK copyright law protection extend to computer-generated works which are not original? Ordinarily, for a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work to be protected under the CDPA it must be original. Traditionally, the English Courts applied a test of ‘sufficient skill, labour or effort’ to determine originality.