Intellectual property and NFT: legal issues and prospects

сurrently, scientific circles actively pay attention to the study of legal problems associated with the legal regulation of non-fungible tokens - NFT in the context of intellectual property. In many ways, the relevance of this topic is due to the ambiguous position of existing legislation, the presence of a significant number of legal collisions. The following issues remain open for discussion: the procedure for determining the copyright holder of the content underlying the created NFT; liability measures applied to people for unauthorized copying of content embodied in the framework of a non-fungible token; regulation of the NFT circulation market, the relationship of technical features with the current law and other aspects existing in this area. In this regard, it can be concluded that there has been no clear formation of a legal position in relation to this object. It is necessary to amend the current legislation in the field of regulation of actions related to the creation and circulation of non-fungible tokens, as well as in terms of securing their legal status. Based on the above, it can be assumed that this topic will be demand for study and analysis in scientific communities over the coming years.

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