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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. v Stability A.I.

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Copyright Protection of Photographs: a Comparative Analysis Between France, Germany and Italy

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For instance, copyright protection has been denied to photographs taken by paparazzi and photographs of sport events. The threshold to meet these requirements is similar to the traditional common law «skill, labour and judgement» test, and is often met whenever the photograph was not copied and shows a modicum of technical skill.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. Mason J. [xi]

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Book Review: Handbook of Intellectual Property Research [Part 2]

The IPKat

Survival analysis is a branch of statistics, which models the duration of time until a given event occurs. Here, readers will find an explanation of both traditional valuation methods (cost method, market method and income method) and newer methods (such as the Monte Carlo method), - all based on real-life scenarios.

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[Guest post] New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights

The IPKat

In case of works, part 1 of Article 29 permits the limitation of economic rights to reproduction for the purpose of digitisation, indexing, cataloguing, preservation or restoration of a copy. In case of the related rights subject matter, the lawmaker did not explicitly indicate the limitations of economic rights.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In the event of an unexpected success of a work, the author can even become entitled to a subsequent claim for additional remuneration (Section 32a UrhG, bestseller or fairness compensation). If they issue their own offers, they are liable for such offers, in the event of infringement, as perpetrators.