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My beginner understanding of NFTs leads me to think the polar opposite would achieve the goals of: 1. No ownership / everyone owns it 2. No limits to copying/
by mattbrewsbytes 5y ago
My beginner understanding of NFTs leads me to think the polar opposite would achieve the goals of:
1. No ownership / everyone owns it
2. No limits to copying/editing/republishing
3. No royalties or payment of any kind
So maybe just posting your digital art online with an open-source license of some kind (usually that is for code) that indicates anyone can use it, copy it, do whatever they want with it and pay you no money/royalties.
People have pointed out that the actual art isn't in the NFT. This means anyone that knows how to capture a screenshot can duplicate anything they see online. This makes me think of stock photography sites. How do they enforce people aren't just copying/pasting the photos? Is this even enforceable/preventable? How would NFT's solve enforcement/prevention?
Since this is partly a thought experiment... one way for enforcement/prevention is for the digital artwork to be only used in closed source systems where validation with an NFT marketplace could be used. Websites are open source, maybe not legally but in essence you can copy anything that shows up on your screen, download images, etc. Closed source systems where people are paying to enter, like old school installable Enterprise software, could prevent or at least make copying extremely difficult and easier to trace. Another closed source system is video games - heavy on the artwork and lots of (much hated) micro-transactions to purchase cosmetic items.
- clay-dreidels 5y agoThat is a very good analogy. Stallman was right.
- pkdpic 5y agoThanks for the well thought out / well written response! I definitely agree. And the closed source / walled garden examples are super on point. It feels like a reminder that anti-scarcity / universal access / unrestrained reproducibility really seems like its at the heart of the web and maybe just digital information technology in general. We do so much work to fight it on different levels even with things as simple as user auth but its a never ending battle. Oddly though it feels now like openly sharing things in a way that will reach anyone is a similarly difficult fight against all the corporate entities with so much financial incentive to fight the webs natural stateless state. In any case your comment makes me want to keep it simple and start just posting art on unsplash :^p