Prime riflessioni sul rapporto tra NFT e proprietà intellettuale

The paper contains some initial reflections on the issues posedby the emerging technology of NFTs and their relationship withCopyright. In the first part, existing and currently widespread cases are identified and described because of the different uses that can be made of NFTs. The authors investigate the changes that the diffusion of these new technologies developed on blockchain maybring in the mechanisms of copyright management, having regard as much to Law and Economics aspects as to positive law. They go on to develop the basic idea that these new cases shouldbe legally treated in a non-unitary way, since different ways of use correspond to different conformations and, therefore, different rules of discipline. Thus, in the last part, they deal with the relationship between NFTs and one-off intellectual works, the resale right and the principle of digital exhaustion.