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Exactly this. Which is fine. What isn’t fine is when people pretend that the ownership is over the media itself.
by zepto 5y ago
Exactly this. Which is fine. What isn’t fine is when people pretend that the ownership is over the media itself.
- mattdesl 5y agoMost collectors aren't claiming to own the media (because anybody can right-click save it, and because it is usually hosted on IPFS, the very purpose of which is to allow the media to be copied & distributed across many nodes). But they may claim to own "the artwork," referring to the artist-signed artefact. Much like how a museum may choose to acquire & build provenance around a signed photographic print, despite the availability of unsigned prints that depict the same exact media (see Ansel Adams signed vs unsigned prints, for example).
- nickitolas 5y agoimo anyone claiming to "own the artwork" when talking about widely available digital media is talking about copyright, and if they're talking about something else, they're high