Since the adoption of «Parte Veneziana», a Venetian law of 1474 which made the first attempt to protect inventions through a form of patent, granting an exclusive right to an individual, and which is considered the root of the Intellectual Property system, IP has been developed as an...

tl;dr: It’s unclear, and that might be a problem for Larva Labs, but might also be an opportunity.Larva Labs’s CryptoPunks NFTs are iconic. Created in 2017, they were among the first NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Four years later, they are among the most valuable, selling for anywhere...

A legal dispute is brewing between Larva Labs, the creator of the CryptoPunks NFTs, and a group of owners of the so-called V1 CryptoPunks or V1 Punks, who received the NFTs in 2017 when Larva first launched them. However, the V1 Punks had a big error in the code for the smart contract. To fix...

In the first quarter of 2021, the sales of art in the form of Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) reached over $200 billion dollars. The arrival of NFTs in the mainstream art market has profoundly shaped the way artists exploit their works. This sensational boom has attracted some of the world's...

The momentum effect of assets of various classes has been known and presented in the literature for a long time. However, there is no work confirming the existence of a similar effect on intellectual assets. The reason for this lies in a different mechanism for the trade turnover of such assets....

Intellectual property generally rests on the assumption that markets will bring about an ideal allocation of resources. Nonetheless, copyright law remains riddled with regimes that bypass or restructure normal market licensing between copyright owners and distributors such as streaming services,...

The copyright protectability of outputs generated by or with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hotly debated question in academia and by many institutions. In practice, sophisticated AI algorithms have become a meaningful assistant in the European news industry in the reporting of...

The proposed third amendment to PRC copyright law endeavours to enhance the standards of damages to fight piracy more effectively via a TRIPS-Plus approach. This includes, inter alia, reframing statutory damages, introducing punitive damages, and new evidence rules granting the right of...

The ambiguity of the empirical results on the relationship between copyright and creativity calls for a better theoretical understanding of the issue, possibly enlarging the analysis to other factors such as technology and copyright enforcement. This paper addresses these complex policy issues...