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intellectual property blockchain
Hi. Is there anyone here who has experience buying or selling digital creations that are supposedly scarce because of blockchain technology? https://superrare.co/about On the one hand one might suppose that this could work, since bitcoins also more or less seem to work, implying that things can potentially be digital and also scarce. But suppose you buy some digital crypto content at the superrare site or a similar venue. Does it mean the art stays on the site and will only be in your digital art collection on that site or will you be able to download a copy of your digital artwork so you can have it on your own computer (just like bitcoins can be downloaded so you have them stored locally on a usb stick). If you are able to download a copy, will that be identical to the original digital artwork? What happens if it somehow ends up in possession by multiple people? I think if you create something, the ideal scenario would be that your creation can be enjoyed by the widest possible audience, and that seems to contradict the idea of artificial digital scarcity. Would it really be satisfying if you created an artwork and some rich asshole buys it because he thinks it would be a good investment to store it in some safe for decades and sell it with a profit later on, even though he doesn't really care about art? |
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intellectual property blockchain
On 2021-02-11 19:56, sobriquet wrote:
I think if you create something, the ideal scenario would be that your creation can be enjoyed by the widest possible audience, and that seems to contradict the idea of artificial digital scarcity. If someone wants to monetize their digital creations, then this could be a means of securing that - and that includes wide audiences ponying up cash for the opportunity. I wonder if there may be DRM implications/opportunities for that matter. Would it really be satisfying if you created an artwork and some rich asshole buys it because he thinks it would be a good investment to store it in some safe for decades and sell it with a profit later on, even though he doesn't really care about art? There are untold numbers of precious art pieces hanging on the walls of collectors/investors out of view of the public. (Occasionally the actual work will be in some very remote and highly protected, environmentally controlled vault with a very good replica on the wall at the owner's...). Getting back to your subject as written, however, such can be the basis of all sorts of contracts and/or proof of ownership, etc. There is no limit to how the blockchain concept can be used to prove a particular person or organization "owns it" or even some tiny fraction of it. -- "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." -Samuel Clemens |
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