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Omg yes, please make this a reality. I made a pointless web-scraper to harvest artworks off of museum websites last year. Why not make them all NFTs and sell th
by pkdpic 5y ago
Omg yes, please make this a reality. I made a pointless web-scraper to harvest artworks off of museum websites last year. Why not make them all NFTs and sell them? Would there be any validity to a cease and desist from the Louvre if you just made an NFT of the Mona Lisa? Is this already a thing?
- krrrh 5y agoIt really depends on the country you’re in. For instance compare the English and German Wikipedia pages for Gerhard Richter. The English page has plenty of photos of his work under fair use while the German one only has links to works hosted on external sites. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter There’s a law firm in Germany that crawls the web and tries to collect money from any page that posts an image they haven’t gotten permission to. If you really want to make your brain hurt check out the rules around photos of buildings and the right to panorama. https://euobserver.com/justice/126375 https://euobserver.com/justice/126375
- thrashh 5y agoWell, first of all, the Mona Lisa is public domain so you could print it on a coffee cup if you wanted to. (Photographs of the Mona Lisa are copyrighted, however.) But assuming you did make an NFT of a copyrighted work, then it’s simply asking if the courts consider it a derivative work, which I could see.