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Anonymity in the World of Intellectual Property
Post Authored By: Natalie Elizaroff Sometimes a good cloud of mystery creates the charm of intrigue – but is anonymity worth the cost? Trademarks, copyrights, and patents are different kinds…
The Trademark Blog
Banksy found to act in bad faith – IPKAT
IPKAT: Let not the Cancellation Division see your black and deep desires: (another) Banksy mark cancelled by EUIPO due to bad faith. Let not the Cancellation Division see your black…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Latham & Watkins Provides Beginner’s Guide to NFTs
By Christian F. McDermott, Calum Docherty
Earlier this month, a blockchain firm bought a US$95,000 print by the British street artist Banksy, only to burn it in a livestreamed video and re-sell it for US$380,000 as…
Internet & Social Media Law Blog
Fungible Banksy: NFTs, Copyright and Digital Art Collide with the Burning of Morons
We previously wrote on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that represent art and how that concept is starting to be embraced by the art world. Enter Banksy, a celebrated graffiti artist and…
Tech Law Blog
Banksy loses EU trade mark due to “bad faith”
The purpose of copyright is to protect original artistic works, but Banksy is well-known for his view that "copyright is for losers", which may well be linked to the fact…
Art Law Perspectives
Brooklyn Museum Deaccessioning Artworks, Banksy Loses Trademark Battle and Other Stories
By Jana Farmer
UNITED STATES Two New York Antiquities Dealers Arrested for Allegedly Fabricating Provenance Documents Two owners of a Manhattan-based antiquities gallery were arrested in connection with their suspected complicity in an…
The Traklight Blog
Banksy Opens Shop to Fight Trademark Claim
By Mike Willee
It's hard enough for most of us to conceive of being famous for any reason, and harder still to imagine somehow being both famous and anonymous, which would seem to…
The IP Law Blog
Counterculturalist Banksy to Defend His Intellectual Property in a European Cancellation Proceeding
By Intellectual Property Group
If you’re familiar with Banksy, you know he’s the epitome of counterculturalism. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Banksy, he is an anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political…
Italy Intellectual Property Blog
Pest Control under control: an interesting decision by the Milan Court involving the exhibition “The art of Banksy. A visual protest”
Back in January of this year, the Commercial Chamber of the Milan Court issued an interesting order in the preliminary injunction proceedings instigated by Pest Control Office Limited against 24…
ContractsProf Blog
Banksy keeps things interesting
Here's me poking my head out from a weekend of midterm grading to thank Banksy for a situation right out of a contracts hypothetical. Thank you to Eric Chiappinelli and Jennifer Taub…