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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has unveiled a new monetization feature that seeks to share revenue between music artists and content creators on the social media platform. 

Music Revenue Sharing is designed to make it easier for creators to monetize videos even when using licensed music, with Meta championing it as “the first of its kind within the music industry,” helping the site’s content creators “access more popular music, deepening relationships with their fans.”

On 1 August 2022 the EUIPO will launch a new electronic form for EU trade marks (EUTMs) that will make filing applications more user-friendly and efficient.

This is another step towards enhancing our website’s user experience, taking into consideration the input received from our users.

The new online form is more intuitive, easier to use and has new features, including:

Maurizio Cattelan’s notorious Comedian piece — a found item work comprising a banana taped to a wall — is making waves again. Last week, a federal court in Miami ruled that a US artist can take legal action against Cattelan for allegedly copying the banana work, which drew huge crowds at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair in 2019.

The Metaverse can be understood as a parallel virtual world, where users can interact through their avatars and perform different activities. In this sense, within the Metaverse, users can create original content or share content that can be susceptible of being protected by copyright. 

Lesser-known songwriters ordered to pay legal costs after court rejected accusations Shape of You ripped off their song.

Ed Sheeran and his co-songwriters have been awarded more than £900,000 in legal costs after winning their high court copyright trial over the hit Shape of You earlier this year.

Being an artist in today’s increasingly digital world is full of amazing opportunities. You can reach out to a wider audience around the world easily.

But at the same time, the internet and web 3 have also increased the risks of copyright infringements. It takes just a few buttons to copy an image from social media or a website and use it for commercial purposes. If you are not careful, someone else can copy months of your hard work and use it for their personal profits. 

By Eleonora Rosati, at April 2022 issue of Alicante News.

In her seminal 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf submitted that, for women to be able to create, they needed financial independence and a private space.

Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.