No. The original art either has to be gated by a central source of truth (not decentralised), or entirely made public by uploading it in full to the blockchain.

No. The original art either has to be gated by a central source of truth (not decentralised), or entirely made public by uploading it in full to the blockchain. There is also not much of a concept of ‘lending’ the data, as owning the token and not owning the token are effectively the same thing, and there’s no ‘proof of deletion’. Opinion, but NFTs are a bubble. As soon as someone publishes a site that makes it easy to download them without paying the market will crash.