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Whether you are looking to make your own nonfungibletoken to sell or you’re looking to buy an NFT as an investment, you need to be aware of copyright and trademark laws that might apply to your NFT. Are NFTs (NonFungibleTokens) Considered Intellectual Property? What is a NonFungibleToken?
NFT stands for non-fungibletoken. Non-fungible basically means unique. By way of comparison, a $10 note is an example of a fungible asset, because it can be replaced with another $10 note, or two $5 notes. Digital works which are the subject of NFTs will often incorporate copyright material.
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Instagram [vi] are two further intriguing cases to study that are currently ongoing (copyright infringement case involving embedded photographs). Contrary to trademarks, copyrights do not need to be used in commerce for the owner to be able to enforce their ownership.
As recently in 2022 Hermès, a fashion house sued Manson an NFT (non-fungibletoken) creator for trademark infringement who marketed a digital asset called “Metabirkins”, which was a digital copy of a bag created by Hermès, which sold at many high prices. Copyright Infringement. Later it was settled. Patent Infringement.
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Grimaldi ) whereby the right to protect a registered trade mark (a protection given in the USA law essentially by the Lanham Act ), under some circumstances, cannot be enforced to detriment of “the right of others to express themselves freely in their own artisticwork” (from the Rogers v. Grimaldi case).
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