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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Parallel to this, Non-Fungible Tokens, often known as NFTs, have seen tremendous growth as more and more people enter the market. REFERENCES [i] Robyn Conti, What You Need To Know About Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Forbes (2021), [link] (last visited July 01, 2022). [ii]

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Tarantino Asks Court to Dismiss Miramax’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

The popularity of non-fungible tokens, NFTs for short, has reached new highs over the past year. “The Film is a derivative work created from the Screenplay, not the other way around. Last fall, Quentin Tarantino joined in as well. ‘Infringements’ Removed?

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by Tumisu via Pixabay Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are altering society’s notion of digital ‘ownership’ and redefining the common perspective on distribution of original works to consumers by introducing scarcity to the digital realm.

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Top 3 posts of the autumn from our IP law blogs

Kluwer Copyright Blog

1) The Rise of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the Role of Copyright Law – Part II by Peter Mezei , João Pedro Quintais , Alexandra Giannopoulou and Balázs Bodó. “Part I of this post introduced the recent emergence of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), explained their basic characteristics and what they can represent.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that?

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Creative Commons and NFTs – is CC licensing compatible with the new technologies?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have become a buzzword in recent years. With the development of the new technologies, including NFTs, CC licensing is as relevant as ever and continues to offer an effective licensing tool for the underlying copyrighted works linked to NFTs.

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Buying an NFT? You are not buying what you think.

Traverse Legal Blog

Today, we will be talking about NFT non-fungible token licensing. The right to create derivative works. There was a recent story that is an instructive lesson in copyright law that has application to the NFT market. Congratulations, you played yourself” is a cautionary take for NFT investors.