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My Concerns with the ‘Can’t Be Evil’ NFT Licenses

Plagiarism Today

Last month, a study published by The Galaxy examined the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and found that, despite many understanding that NFTs transferred either the copyright or the license in the original work, only 1 in 25 of those projects even attempted to do as such. The original creator retains no exploitation rights.

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Permissibility Of A Waiver Of Moral Rights Of An Author Under The Copyright Regime

IP and Legal Filings

Section 57 of the Copyright Act of 1957 covers authors’ special rights particularly, highlighting the importance of expanding such rights beyond solely economic grounds. As a result, the lifetime of these rights varies greatly between countries. Waiver of moral right of the author permissible?

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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

And who poses moral rights in the work? Relying on theatrical studies and the empirical study, the chapter provides insights into the way that producers, directors, playwrights, and actors regulate – or choose not to regulate – disputes about copying. The monograph is presented in six chapters. Details here. Aaaand, curtain!

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Saving the printed press – the Croatian implementation of Article 15 of the DSM Directive

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Favouring the press publishers. Furthermore, it introduces an accompanying new moral right of attribution for the first source of the ‘news of the day’. Works of authorship are protected through economic and moral rights afforded to the copyright holder.

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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

The IPKat

There, it was presented as an original Koons artwork of which three copies exist. Of all the grounds of appeal to the Supreme Court, the most intriguing one is that concerning the application of relevant provisions in the Italian Copyright Act concerning moral rights.

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St. Art Foundation v. Acko General Insurance: Decoding Street Art, Fair use and Moral rights

SpicyIP

52(1)(t) and ‘moral rights’ of the author in such work. Lastly, I will discuss the argument of moral rights of the author in contending the ‘fair use exemption’ of their work. As a corollary, it also asserted ‘moral rights’ over the mural under Sec. 166 of Create, Copy, Disrupt). 57 of the Act.

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

The IPKat

Orphan works The new law provides for orphan works permitted uses covering copyright and related rights subject matter published in Ukraine – works, phonograms, videograms and recorded performances. In case of the related rights subject matter, the lawmaker did not explicitly indicate the limitations of economic rights.