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Intellectual Property Rights in the Metaverse: Navigating the Virtual Frontier

IIPRD

This will give recognition to those persons and provide them with ownership rights for that intellectual activity. This historic ruling created a precedent for companies looking to protect their trademarks in the metaverse and sparked debate about whether Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) are protected by intellectual property laws.

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Global Digital Encounter 21: The Metaverse as a Challenge to Classical IP

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In particular, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), crypto and metaverse have dominated our infospace. Then, there is a second version of property ownership, as seen in the Second Life – virtual goods created by users, which belong to them. NFTs could potentially enable ownership but this is yet to be seen.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 12 – 18)

SpicyIP

NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales. Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Vol. 5, Issue 1 [Submit by September 19].