“But I can just look at a JPEG online.”

Re:“But I can just look at a JPEG online.” by ALittleLight on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:08PM (#28545617)

I could just send the artist some money and they could post on their website that I "own" the artwork. Not in the sense of having anything physical, or having any rights to it, or whatever, but just in some magical nebulous sense of the word ownership. To me, that would make a lot more sense than getting NFTs involved.

Of course, the "downside" of this is that I couldn't get rich in a random gambling game where, for some reason, someone wants to pay me 100x what I paid to "own" the artwork. To me, NFTs don't represent valuing art so much as they represent gambling games. If I value art, I will pay the artist. I don't need a blockchain.

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Re:“But I can just look at a JPEG online.” by asddubs on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:13PM (#28545658)

i kind of assumed that nfts, just like a lot of physical art, is just a new and exciting way to launder money

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Re:“But I can just look at a JPEG online.” by falcolas on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:04PM (#28546146)

Well, you can absolutely own the copyright to a digital piece of art. Granted, you don’t get a neat little cryptographic signature, but according to the law, you control who can display that piece of art, and where they can display it.

Now then, whether copyright should grant such rights, that’s a different discussion.

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