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There would be a record showing the original author put it on the blockchain first. After that’s on there nobody else can remove it. This could be used as evid

There would be a record showing the original author put it on the blockchain first. After that’s on there nobody else can remove it. This could be used as evidence of their authorship in court. “Look, here we have a tamper proof ledger showing I uploaded this at X date before it was copied.”

jeffwass 5y ago
Suppose someone scoops the artist’s work and sells their artwork first, without their permission? Eg, I recently saw the “Charlie bit my finger” family will sell an NFT of their video. Is there anything stopping someone else from selling NFT’s of other viral videos before their makers do so? Timestamping would only work for works that are tokenised at the same time as (or prior to) their public release.
- atom_arranger 5y ago
  When you take someone to court over a copyright violation having proof that you control a wallet that was the first to have minted an NFT representing the work in question would be one piece of evidence that you may be the original author. If there is other evidence, e.g. the other party has a YouTube account which uploaded a video years ago of the work, and is publicly known to be the author of the work, then the judge will probably rule the NFT is not sufficient evidence of ownership/you are not the copyright holder. There is nothing technically stopping people uploading NFTs of things that they don’t own the rights too. That won’t hold up in court though, not even the court of public opinion.
gbear605 5y ago
So now the race to prove ownership is to upload it to a blockchain first? If you publish your art on deviantart but while you’re uploading it to the blockchain, I sneak in first and upload it, suddenly I can say that I have a tamper proof ledger showing that I uploaded it before it was copied by you.
- atom_arranger 5y ago
  Kind of. It would be desirable to put your work on the blockchain before anyone else. There are other things people could consider though, in terms of evaluating the history/authorship of something. The blockchain is just one data point.
  - soco 5y ago
    So the blockchain doesn't solve evaluating the history/ownership. Not even.
    - atom_arranger 5y ago
      Is anything really solved?
aj3 5y ago
How do you check who was the first in practice? Blockchain is large and will grow larger. NFTs hold URLs not hashes, so the same artwork could be represented by multiple hashes. The url could also point to a different artwork now compared to what was there before.

jeffwass 5y ago

Suppose someone scoops the artist’s work and sells their artwork first, without their permission? Eg, I recently saw the “Charlie bit my finger” family will sell an NFT of their video. Is there anything stopping someone else from selling NFT’s of other viral videos before their makers do so? Timestamping would only work for works that are tokenised at the same time as (or prior to) their public release.

atom_arranger 5y ago
When you take someone to court over a copyright violation having proof that you control a wallet that was the first to have minted an NFT representing the work in question would be one piece of evidence that you may be the original author. If there is other evidence, e.g. the other party has a YouTube account which uploaded a video years ago of the work, and is publicly known to be the author of the work, then the judge will probably rule the NFT is not sufficient evidence of ownership/you are not the copyright holder. There is nothing technically stopping people uploading NFTs of things that they don’t own the rights too. That won’t hold up in court though, not even the court of public opinion.

gbear605 5y ago

So now the race to prove ownership is to upload it to a blockchain first? If you publish your art on deviantart but while you’re uploading it to the blockchain, I sneak in first and upload it, suddenly I can say that I have a tamper proof ledger showing that I uploaded it before it was copied by you.

atom_arranger 5y ago
Kind of. It would be desirable to put your work on the blockchain before anyone else. There are other things people could consider though, in terms of evaluating the history/authorship of something. The blockchain is just one data point.
- soco 5y ago
  So the blockchain doesn't solve evaluating the history/ownership. Not even.
  - atom_arranger 5y ago
    Is anything really solved?

aj3 5y ago

How do you check who was the first in practice? Blockchain is large and will grow larger. NFTs hold URLs not hashes, so the same artwork could be represented by multiple hashes. The url could also point to a different artwork now compared to what was there before.