SpicyIP

MAY 18, 2022

Hermes has sued a Californian artist, Mason Rothschild, for his “MetaBirkins” digital artworks alleging trademark infringement. As is being argued in the Nike case, it may also be argued that virtual goods are nothing but a representation / proof of ownership of a physical product. Dec 21, 2021.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 11, 2024

[Image Sources: Shutterstock] Definition and Scope Trademark Registration: A trademark that a business can put on the products that they offer in the market is a word, phrase, symbol or a design associated with the origin of the products. This includes all books, artworks, pieces of music, and other creations in any field or discipline.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Manuscripts, designs and art can all be classified as intellectual property. An NFT, or “non-fungible token” is a token added to a blockchain that links ownership to unique digital items (images, video files, audio files, artworks, etc.). An NFT shows proof of ownership for a digital object. What is Intellectual Property?

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents. For more details on the topic of design and the metaverse in China see our previous blog post.

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Traverse Legal Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

An NFT or “non-fungible token” is a digital asset that links ownership to unique digital items. Non-fungible tokens have been designed to give you ownership of something that cannot be replicated or copied. Any individual can buy an artwork print, but only one person owns the original piece. What are NFTs? NFT Technology.

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Traverse Legal Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

The basic explanation is that an NFT, or “non-fungible token” is a digital asset that links ownership to unique digital items. Non- fungible tokens have been designed to give a person ownership of something, kind of like modern day digital collectibles. AN NFT shows proof of ownership for a digital object. NFT Technology.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This AI system — the so-called “Creativity Machine” — produced the artwork titled “ A Recent Entrance to Paradise ”. as an author where it otherwise meets authorship criteria, with any copyright ownership vesting in the AI’s owner.” Hence and copyright law was therefore not designed to reach them. see 17 U.S.C. §

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Corsearch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Intellectual property rights are defined as legal rights that protect the ownership of artistic, literary, and other creative works. Trademarks A trademark is a distinctive word, logo, phrase, design, or symbol used to identify the source of goods and services. Copyright infringement as the unauthorized use of a protected work.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

A Social Media Influencer is someone who creates unique material that keeps people interested on multiple social media platforms, causing them to return for more high-quality information. However, in order to have legal proof of ownership, it is always advisable to register for copyright registration. Yes, the answer is yes!

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e., Secondly, para.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 9, 2023

In the lawsuit, Hermès alleged that defendant Mason Rothschild’s MetaBirkins NFTs infringed and diluted Hermès’ trademark rights in the Birkin word mark and design. They include anything that can act as a source-identifier, including, in this case, the design of the Birkin handbag. ” ( Id.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Regulations also protect the rights of authors of an original applied or fine artwork to a share in the proceeds of sale of that work as long as copyright subsists. The warning came as a result of complaints from various artists and designers who assert that their works are being distributed on various platforms without benefitting them.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The current generation of AI image generation tools such as Stable Diffusion , Midjourney and DALL·E 2 are designed to take a text description or prompt from a user and generate an image that matches the prompt. What is AI image generation software?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

In particular, the training stage of the AI tools requires the scrapping and extraction of relevant information from underlying datasets, which often contain copyright protected works. First and unrelated to copyright, they must comply with the separate transparency or information obligations outlined in Article 52(1).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

1] The artwork is held by the Italian state museum Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice, which, along with the Italian Ministry of Culture, initiated the precautionary proceeding against the German company Ravensburger and its Italian subsidiary for producing and selling the puzzle and reproducing the work’s image.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Virtual characters can play themed games, create original artwork, visit exhibition locations, shop for virtual clothing for their collections or gaming outfits, and partake in social events after arriving in “Gucci Town.” The general public could view the collection’s three-dimensional designs by scanning a QR code.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2022

AML/CFT regime related to beneficial ownership, real estate, and investment advisers and nonfinancial gatekeepers before turning its attention to the high-value art market.” ” [5] The Report only discussed money laundering, ignoring other known risk areas in the art market, such as the sale of forged or stolen artworks. [6].

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Early February the RIAA stepped in to issue a cease-and-desist against HitPiece.com, describing it as a scam site designed to mislead and defraud fans with its offer to sell them NFTs genuinely associated with artists. Equally, where was it getting its music and artwork from to populate its music player? NFT Music Stream.

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