IP Word of the Day

Copyright in street art is quite controversial. Yet, the argument prevails that works that have not been sanctioned by the authorities as vandalism are subject to protection.

A watermark is an identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light (or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background), caused by thickness or density variations in the paper. Watermarks have been used on postage stamps, currency, and other government documents to discourage counterfeiting.

The art of creating a dance.

Web fiction is written works of literature available primarily or solely on the Internet. A common type of web fiction is the web serial. The term comes from old serial stories that were once published regularly in newspapers and magazines.

Out-of-commerce works are works that are still protected by copyright but are not available commercially, such as literary works, audio-visual works, phonograms, photographs and unique works of art. To help the exchange of information about out-of-commerce works, a single publicly accessible online portal has been established by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

A group of artworks that represent a particular genre, style or artistic movement. The collected works of William Shakespeare, for instance, would be part of the canon of western literature, since his writing and writing style has had a significant impact on nearly all aspects of that genre.

The term comes from a Slavic root, robot-, with meanings associated with labor. The word 'robot' was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 Czech-language play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek, though it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor.

A book, movie, television series, or other artistic creation is called sui generis when it does not fit into standard genre boundaries. Movie critic Richard Schickel identifies "Joe Versus the Volcano" as a sui generis movie. Film critic Michael Brooke used the term to describe "Fantastic Planet", a 1973 Franco-Czech sci-fi animated film directed by René Laloux.

Crypto art (also stylized as CryptoArt or cryptoart) is a category of art related to blockchain technology.

Emerging as a niche genre of artistic work following the development of blockchain networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum in the mid to late 2010s, crypto art quickly grew in popularity in large part because of the unprecedented ability afforded by the underlying technology for purely digital artworks to be bought, sold, or collected by anyone in a decentralized manner.

The idea about Slow Art was conceived in 2008. One of the issues the Slow Art Movement addresses is the fact that art is “manufactured” these days and so, the consumers cannot appreciate it for what it genuinely is.