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Re: CNN is selling public domain images as NFTs

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BTC is its own problem. I am talking only about NFTs and chains that make them possible. Major NFT markets now exist in Ethereum, Tezos, Solana and Algorand blockchains. Ethereum is the only one that has this problem and it’s working on ending it through an upgrade.

> Ethereum is the only one that has this problem and it’s working on ending it through an upgrade. It might decline in popularity, but it's unlikely to actually end just because PoS is deployed. Someone will almost certainly rebrand the current PoW-based Ethereum chain+software and continue to maintain and promote it. This already happened once because the Ethereum principals rewrote history after their favorite smar…

That chain, Ethereum Classic, is virtually worthless and unused next to Ethereum itself.

Re: CNN is selling public domain images as NFTs

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I have a tangential question: what determines or guarantees the uniqueness of an NFT? My understanding is that the part of an NFT that is encoded on the blockchain is just some json (usually) metadata. Does the blockchain guarantee that same exact json metadata is not uploaded again?

Re: CNN is selling public domain images as NFTs

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I have a tangential question: what determines or guarantees the uniqueness of an NFT? My understanding is that the part of an NFT that is encoded on the blockchain is just some json (usually) metadata. Does the blockchain guarantee that same exact json metadata is not uploaded again?

No.

Re: CNN is selling public domain images as NFTs

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Disney would DMCA the NFT marketplace, like OpenSea or whatever. It's happened before, although I'm not sure if Disney specifically has done it or not.

What if there was no copyright material associated with the listing? If you don’t actually present an image of a Disney character on the site, there is nothing preventing an NFT referring to one.

I think you might be right - it’s worth a try!

Re: CNN is selling public domain images as NFTs

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What if there was no copyright material associated with the listing? If you don’t actually present an image of a Disney character on the site, there is nothing preventing an NFT referring to one.

I think you might be right - it’s worth a try!

Until you have to defend yourself in court. Then it might not have been worth it.

Re: CNN is selling public domain images as NFTs

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I think you might be right - it’s worth a try!

Until you have to defend yourself in court. Then it might not have been worth it.

Defend yourself for what? Posting a url with a hash attached to it?
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