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

Plagiarism Today

Creative Commons 0 (CC0) : This is essentially the Creative Commons Zero license , which is seen as largely a public domain dedication. The creator of an NFT attaches one of these licenses to their NFT and, as a result, they clearly communicate what rights they are and are not granting the buyer. The idea is fairly simple.

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Uffizi museum sues Jean Paul Gaultier over unauthorized reproduction of Botticelli’s Venus on fashion garments

The IPKat

Not a copyright dispute … and the non-role of Article 14 of the DSM Directive In sum: the CHC provides a way to control for-profit reproductions of Italian cultural heritage, irrespective of their copyright status (it is in any case worth recalling that under Italian copyright law moral rights protection is … perpetual).

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Conundrum Involving The Ownership Of The Work Created By Ai

IP and Legal Filings

AI can explore data or information that is accessible in public domain or copyright of other person and can investigate or work upon that information but only to that extent which the software program permits. [3] Therefore, AI may not equipped for generating an original work. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The creation of AR experiences may involve acts of reproduction and communication to the public that have potential copyright implications. AR can concern two categories of cultural goods – those that are in the public domain and those embedding a copyrighted work of art. . (i) i) Public domain works.

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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Removing a photo’s CMI and putting it on a travel agent’s website would be different from placing it on “some website labeled ‘free public domain pictures here,’ where you’re kind of asking for infringement.”. Jackson believes the nature of the platform where the content was published could also provide guidance.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

The IPKat

PermaKat Neil Wilkof commented on the reproduction of the work of art " Detail from the Portrait of Eugénie-Pamela Larivière" (which is in the public domain) by Louis Larivière in the Louvre, Paris" on a book cover. Reminder: last call to vote for your best IP book of 2021 by participating in the poll here !

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[Guest post] Universal Copyright Convention – RIP

The IPKat

Later adherence leaped forward, not least as a consequence of the incorporation of the substantive provisions of the Berne Convention in the TRIPS Agreement in 1994 (except for the protection of moral rights) and, eventually in the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT).

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