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Re:Why Web3? by raesene9 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @03:27PM (#29729561)
In many cases you don't even need to modify it. Ownership of an NFT often does not provide copyright on the original image (https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2021/04/article_0007.h... has some interesting details on what you do and don't get with an NFT). So if you made the original image, you can just mint a new NFT of that image and sell it.

Heck you can mint as many NFTs as you like of any image you own the copyright of :)

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Re:Why Web3? by kpommerenke on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @05:43PM (#29731112)
Why do I need to own the copyright to mint an NFT of the image?
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Re:Why Web3? by raesene9 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @05:06AM (#29735339)
So, if you don't own the copyright and then mint an NFT, in theory the copyright holder could get the source image for your NFT taken down (depending on where it's hosted of course)

That hasn't stopped loads of NFTs of copyrighted images being minted ofc.

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