Australian computer scientist Craig Wright has found himself on the losing end of a bitcoin-related copyright case. It has been decided by a U.K. judge that the file format of the bitcoin blockchain p...
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How The Latest AI-Generated Copyright Loss Could Add Friction To Music And Technology’s Complicated Relationship
Chris McGrath Getty Images With the rapid rise in creative tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT, Dall-E and Midjourney, the laws that protect these new forms of generative conten...
Legal Doomsday For Generative AI ChatGPT If Caught Plagiarizing Or Infringing, Warns AI Ethics And AI Law
Is generative AI such as ChatGPT ripping off our websites and human devised content? Be aware, be … [+] upset, be ready. getty Give credit where credit is due. That’s a bit of sage wisdom that y...
Yuga Labs to change Bored Ape Kennel Club logo after copyright claim
Ad Yuga Labs Co-Founder, Greg Solano, announced on Feb. 18 that Bored Ape Kennel Club would change its logo following copyright allegations against the company related to images from Easy Drawing Guid...
Yuga Labs To Replace BAKC NFT Collection Logo Over Copyright Claims
3 seconds ago | 2 mins read NFT News An alert Twitter user saw the resemblance on Friday and posted it online. Solano claims that Yuga Labs contracted a freelancer to develop the logo. Bored Ape Kenne...
Bitcoin ordinals pump and dump using stolen images and copyright
Bitcoin inscriptions using ordinals are becoming increasingly popular. As the hype cycle begins for the “NFTs on Bitcoin” movement, profiteering ordinals pump groups have quickly sprung into action. A...
10 Yuga Labs trademark requests opposed on copyright infringement grounds
According to a Yuga Labs official who downplayed the importance of the opposition notice, RR/Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) co-founders are allegedly only attempting to stir up trouble. The trademark reg...
Craig Wright Loses Bitcoin Copyright Claim
Computer scientist Craig Wright has lost a claim in a UK court to protect the Bitcoin blockchain by copyright. Wright, who has long asserted that he is Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Na...
The Copyright Registration Battle of Yuga Labs
The court documents revealed that Yuga Labs, a blockchain technology firm, lacks copyright registration for Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) images. According to the media reports, new documents have been ...
Yuga Labs Lacks Copyright Registration for BAYC NFT Images
Yuga Labs does not have copyright registration for the images in the BAYC NFT collection. The information comes from court documents in the case against Ryder Ripps. Court documents reveal that Bored ...
Ryder Ripps Declares Victory Over YugaLabs in NFT Copyright Lawsuit
Ryder Ripps announces stated that Yuga Las “admitted” to all of their counterclaims. Ripp also elucidated that there’s no copyright to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs. In the end, Ripp proclaimed, “Thei...
RNR Unveils New Fintech Platform ‘Cine Marketplace 2.0’, Revolution in Film Copyright Ecosystem, at CES 2023
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#CES2023—RNR, a content technology company, unveiled a new fintech platform for film copyrights ‘Cine Marketplace 2.0’ at CES 2023. The new Cine Marketplace 2.0 (CMP2.0) is...
Manchester United and Tezos Foundation Accused of NFT Copyright Infringement
The $3.77 billion valued football club has been expanding its revenue collection avenues since the onset of the coronavirus, which significantly slashed the company’s profits. After debuting its NFT c...
2 Live Crew’s Decades-Long Legal Battles And Its Current Fight For Copyright Termination
Contributing Author: Heather Antoine In November 2020, the members of 2 Live Crew sent a formal notice terminating all previously … [+] acquired copyrights to their master recordings produced be...
Copyright Lawsuit Over Taylor Swift’s Song ‘Shake It Off’ Dropped Before Heading To Trial
Topline A copyright lawsuit against Taylor Swift was dropped Monday after five years, ending a long-running dispute alleging one of Taylor Swift’s most popular songs—2014’s “Shake It Up”—was lyrically...
With Twitter’s Automated Copyright Strike System Down, Live Sports Events Could Join Movies
Elon Musk’s scattershot management style has put him in potential legal peril with not just … [+] Hollywood, but the sports world. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Imag...
Twitter’s Broken Its Copyright Strike System, Users Are Uploading Full Movies
Hackers MGM While Twitter, the website, remains online and has not simply collapsed after the vast majority of workers were fired or resigned under Elon Musk, we are already starting to see the cracks...
Algorand NFT: green projects and copyright
Algorand NFTs are increasingly chosen by creatives of sustainable projects, supporting the idea that Silvio Micali’s Blockchain is green. Algorand NFTs and Last Survivors to support a greener, more ...
Chinese streaming platform implements smart contracts to handle copyright issues
China’s iQIYI — a streaming platform similar to Netflix — is looking to implement Ethereum (ETH) smart contract standard ERC-3475 to handle copyright issues. The news was announced on DeBond’s medium ...
NFTs: copyright for photos on Algorand’s blockchain
Metabrand.tech recently collaborated with Algorand in order to certify the copyright of photographs through NFTs by leveraging blockchain technology in collaboration with photography studio BK Studios...
Coinbase Sued for Violating the Copyright on Crypto Transfer Technology – crypto.news
Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the United States, has been hit with yet another multi-million dollar lawsuit. The exchange is facing charges over its digital trading technology, filed by a c...
China to go tough on NFT copyright infringements
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The Chinese Government has commenced a full-scale manhunt to tame individuals who use people’s works of art to create their digit...
Can China eliminate copyright infringement in its NFT sector? 1
China has released an announcement stating that authorities in the country will now be going after NFT makers with unauthorized works. This comes after the authorities discovered that most traders are...
China to Crack Down on Copyright Infringement Through NFTs – Bitcoin News
Authorities in China are going after creators of digital collectibles based on other people’s works of art, the use of which was not authorized. The government offensive is part of a campaign to comba...
Paramount Brings ‘Coming To America’ Claim Before Copyright Claims Board To Shut Down McDowell’s Pop-Up
Contributing author: Heather Antoine The ‘McDowell’s’ pop-up restaurant, paying homage to the 1988 film, ‘Coming to America’ is at the … [+] center of ParamountR...
What You Can’t Use In Your Movie
Gavel Getty Images There are several categories of laws that impose important limits on what you can include in a film, and it is important to be aware of these categories, the differences among them,...
The Complexity Of Fair Use
A 2019 federal district court’s ruling that a French court’s judgment pertaining to a lawsuit … [+] involving copyrighted photos of Pablo Picasso’s was recently reversed. Getty Images Contributi...
YouTube Apologizes For Removing Popular Music Stream Due To ‘Abusive’ Copyright Notice
Topline Due to false copyright claims, YouTube took down — and then reinstated, with an apology — the radios of popular YouTube streaming channel Lofi Girl, a popular music channel that broadcasts rel...
US trademark and copyright offices to study IP impact of NFTs
As nonfungible tokens (NFTs) continue to garner interest, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and U.S. Copyright Office are set to launch a study into their impact on intellectual property r...
Should You Copyright Your NFTs?
For example, I could mint a new NFT with any CC0 Noun, but because everyone knows the “original” collection, the one endorsed by the creator(s), mine will have no relevance and probably little if any ...