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In physical card games you can use proxies (fake or invented cards). And if they stop selling the game, you own a physical object so you can keep teaching frien

In physical card games you can use proxies (fake or invented cards). And if they stop selling the game, you own a physical object so you can keep teaching friends and playing with them like any other tabletop game.

exdsq 4y ago
Sure! So if this was a regular digital game you'd be screwed because the assets are tied to the game. As an NFT they're tied to the account, so you could actually make your own game use those assets and keep playing with them :) So that's closer to a physical card than an online-only game like MTG or Hearthstone?
- easrng 4y ago
  NFTs don't actually give you a license to use the assets unless the person who made them licensed them that way which AFAIK is quite uncommon.
  - mattdesl 4y ago
    Same with physical trading cards; buying a MtG card does not give you license to copy the card and redistribute it or repurpose it for your own MtG game business (it will count as copyright infringement, even if the publisher has shut the original game down, they still own the intellectual property). Physical trading cards and NFTs both follow a similar pattern of use, see First-Sale Doctrine[1]. After purchase, you are free to sell, lease, dispose, trade, gift, etc the object (which represents the IP) without having to first gain a license to do so from the copyright holder. With books, trading cards and other physical objects this is written into law. With NFTs there is no law specifying this; but it seems to be the general understanding (and would likely hold up OK in court, based on how these assets are being sold and consumed by the public). [1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1854-copyright-infringement-first-sale-doctrine https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
t_mann 4y ago
Well, on-chain games might not get us back to this as much as people think, but they're definitely closer to it than 'normal' online games.

exdsq 4y ago

Sure! So if this was a regular digital game you'd be screwed because the assets are tied to the game. As an NFT they're tied to the account, so you could actually make your own game use those assets and keep playing with them :) So that's closer to a physical card than an online-only game like MTG or Hearthstone?

easrng 4y ago
NFTs don't actually give you a license to use the assets unless the person who made them licensed them that way which AFAIK is quite uncommon.
- mattdesl 4y ago
  Same with physical trading cards; buying a MtG card does not give you license to copy the card and redistribute it or repurpose it for your own MtG game business (it will count as copyright infringement, even if the publisher has shut the original game down, they still own the intellectual property). Physical trading cards and NFTs both follow a similar pattern of use, see First-Sale Doctrine[1]. After purchase, you are free to sell, lease, dispose, trade, gift, etc the object (which represents the IP) without having to first gain a license to do so from the copyright holder. With books, trading cards and other physical objects this is written into law. With NFTs there is no law specifying this; but it seems to be the general understanding (and would likely hold up OK in court, based on how these assets are being sold and consumed by the public). [1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1854-copyright-infringement-first-sale-doctrine https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...

t_mann 4y ago

Well, on-chain games might not get us back to this as much as people think, but they're definitely closer to it than 'normal' online games.