CHART on Creator Royalties on NFT platforms: which respect full creator royalties and which don’t (Part I)

[T]he current U.S. copyright system leaves many visual artists at a practical disadvantage in relation to other kinds of authors…. Because most artworks are not produced in copies, the visual artist receives a financial interest in only one work – or at best a few copies of that work. Other creators face no comparable limitation,…

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The Mystery of the Missing DMCA agents for popular NFT marketplaces–whither notice and takedown?

Half of the most popular NFT marketplaces–Blur, Looksrare, and Sudoswap–do not appear to have a designated DMCA agent or procedure to receive copyright notices for alleged infringement listed on their websites. Nor does the Copyright Office database contain a registration for a designated DMCA agent.

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Snoop Dogg aka Cozomo de’ Medici buys “Right-click and Save As guy” NFT for 1600.0 ETH ($7,022,000.00)

Snoop Dogg is adding to his huge collection of NFTs, valued in September 2021 at $17 million. On Dec. 8, he purchased for 1600.0 ETH ($7.022M) the NFT for “Right-click and Save As guy” by artist XCOPY, the highest purchase on SuperRare. The seller was 2Yeahyeah. Snoop Dogg bought his NFTs on OpenSea using the…

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NFT Factories: How randomly generated NFTs, 10,000 per collection, have taken over crypto art

Have you considered creating and selling an NFT? Well, if you hope to compete with the big boys, so to speak, you’ll need to know how to scale your art in collections of upwards of 10,000 NFTs. Yes, that’s right, 10,000 NFTs! If you make 1 NFT a day, it would take only 27 years!…

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