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Alalääkkölä v Palmer: New Zealand Supreme Court confirms copyright is relationship property

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Background As recounted by Lyall (2024) , Finnish artist Sirpa Alalkkl and her husband Paul Palmer, who married in 1997 and separated some 20 years later, disputed the ownership of copyright in artworks she created during the course of their relationship. It addressed these questions as follows.

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Beyond the Frames – How Sustainable is Digital Art?

IPilogue

More recently, we have seen digital art open doors for artists to experiment with conceptual artwork like never before. But before we all scatter to “NFTize” our souls, we need to address some legal issues surrounding the overall sustainability of digital artworks. Are smart contracts “smart” enough?

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Fatal Mistakes Made By The ‘Bored Ape Yacht Club’ & ‘Crypto Punks’ NFT Projects

Traverse Legal Blog

Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). They require both chain of tile and a contract setting forth the seller and buyers’ essential contract terms. NFTs are no different.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Moreover, as explained below, despite this ‘doctrinal murkiness’, many NFT sales seem to circumvent the first sale issue by including an automatic resale provision in the smart contract, providing NFT minters with an unprecedented continuous stream of royalties upon each resale. Secondly, the NFT transaction can simply be taken off-chain.

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NFT Lawyer: Legal Risks with ‘Non-Fungible Tokens’

Traverse Legal Blog

A non-fungible token allows you to put a smart contract onto the blockchain that is unique unto itself. Different types of information can be stored on a blockchain including ledger information and smart contracts. NFTs are being used to store smart contracts and authentication for digital artwork and other digital assets.

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Contract Negotiation Tips for Visual Artists

Art Law Journal

What questions should you be asking in contract negotiation, and what provisions should you be reviewing? Not every item must be in the contract, but it will be too late to add anything to make the loss as comprehensive as possible once you sign. Is the contract for my whole series or just specific pieces? Making Your Checklist.

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[Guest post] 'Can't Be Evil' NFT license - A tentative NFT worldwide license standard

The IPKat

The NFT art market, that is NFTs which specifically link an artwork or a digital file (a song, for example), have already gone mainstream and, of course, artists and projects owners have asked lawyers to prepare IP licenses to protect their IP. Let alone was it clear how to protect the IP rights in the artwork linked to it.