Craig Wright Comes Out the Loser in a Recent BTC Copyright Case

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...

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...

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...

How CC0 can help — or hurt — NFT projects

Creative commons (CC0) licensing is, yet again, in the spotlight in crypto. Following Nouns, Goblintown and Cryptodickbutts, Moonbirds became the latest blue-chip NFT project to place its work in the ...

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...

Paramount Sues Company Behind McDowell’s Pop-Up, Citing ‘Coming to America’ Infringement

A pop-up restaurant that paid homage to the 1980s classic comedy “Coming to America” now faces a lawsuit from Paramount Pictures over copyright infringement.  JMC Pop Ups LLC created a temporary versi...

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 ...