Artwork Contracts Derivative Work 
TorrentFreak
JUNE 22, 2022
Movie studio Miramax, which owns most of the rights to the film, sees the plan as a contract breach and copyright infringement. “The Film is a derivative work created from the Screenplay, not the other way around. For example, the early artwork featured iconic depictions of Samuel L.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 19, 2023
Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.
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The IPKat
JUNE 27, 2022
created) on a permissionless blockchain (like Ethereum, Cardano o Solana) through a software called “smart contract” which is recorded on the blockchain itself. A digital file (an artwork, a song, etc.), NFTs – still subject to “old” IP law An NFT is a non-fungible (i.e. Yuga Labs, therefore, still owns the copyright in each NFT.
Copyright Lately
MAY 6, 2022
NFTs were minted Money was advanced The underlying contracts Never got a glance Dreams of exploitation From Florida to France But no rights were acquired The kids don’t stand a chance. — “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance, Aaron’s Version” ( with apologies to Vampire Weekend ). Want to Create New Derivative Works?
Copyright Lately
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
Miramax claims, among other things, that the preparation and sale of these derivative works constitutes copyright infringement because the contractual rights Tarantino reserved in his 1993 agreement with Miramax don’t cover NFTs. The breathless media reports soon followed. The NFT isn’t the image.
The IPKat
JANUARY 18, 2023
In particular, it stands out a concept which is frequently neglected when NFTs are explained: the link to the image, i.e., the artwork, is not contained in the smart contract (the piece of software written in Solidity programming language which generates an NFT) but in a JSON file (“JavaScript Object Notation”) which contains the NFT’s metadata.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 24, 2024
While creative industries claim their work has been not only stolen but specifically used to replace them, AI providers continue, remarkably, to insist that the millions of images ‘fed’ to the AI can be used without permission as part of the ”social contract” of the Internet.
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