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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

An illustration of this idea is that, unless the owner of the copyright expressly grants such a right in writing, a buyer of a sculpture only receives the right to exhibit it, not to make copies of it or derivative works. vii] NFTs are prone to “copyfraud” and other violations of the moral rights of the inventor.

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Use of Warhol’s Prince Image Found Not to Be Sufficiently Transformative for Fair Use 

LexBlog IP

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. Copyright law in the U.S. copyright law.