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NFT Copyright License Rights: Due Diligence is Critical.

Traverse Legal Blog

Copyright Licensing of Digital Assets Attached to NFT Sales. Bonus: Free Open Source Copyright License for NFT sales below]. What are the terms by which you are selling the NFT and licensing your work, the art you put into the platform that’s going to be attached to the NFT? NFT Copyright Licensing.

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Bombay High Court Grants (the First?) Section 32 License to Translate a Literary Work in Marathi

SpicyIP

But IP nerds will specifically remember that eleven years ago, in March 2012, India’s first compulsory license was granted by the Indian Patent Office against Bayer’s Nexavar. One year later, in March 2013 the compulsory license order was upheld by the IPAB in a landmark ruling by the then Chairperson, Justice Prabha Sridevan.

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[Guest post] German court: copyright infringement by ‘re-pin’ on Pinterest

The IPKat

While the photographer had granted the architect of the pictured building a license for use on the architect’s website, this license did not include a right for usage on social media platforms or sub-licensing. Background In the Hamburg case (case No. 3(1) of the Copyright Directive ).

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Intellectual Property Strategies for Development of AI in China

IP Tech Blog

licensing, assignment, JVs, cooperation and co-development etc.) If a secret is stolen, or the ownership or its proper apportionment are disputed, or if a third party is trying to copy software containing AI algorithms, the right holders must not shy away from taking proper enforcement measures.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The ‘ Dune’ scenario is a well-known ‘tale of crypto folly’ featuring NFT purchasers who failed to exercise appropriate due diligence in determining what rights are granted when procuring an NFT. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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

Traverse Legal Blog

The underlying digital asset is copyright protected and licensed to the buyer of the NFT. Should you hire a lawyer to work with you if you are selling or buying an NFT and licensing the associated digital art? That signed painting is going to be worth a lot more than a print copy or an unsigned version of that painting.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work. So, if you buy a copy of “Dune,” you can read it. It would have taken a bit of due diligence, but not much.