LO11:Societal Impacts of Digital Art

In this week’s looking outward, I read the article about NFT and copyright.

NFTs and Copyright

In this reading, the author mainly talks about the newly appeared NFT(Non Fungible Token), as well as its unique features. NFT, as a special token, gives a person more connection to the artwork he buys, and an “ownership” of the artwork. Yet the ownership is tricky because it doesn’t mean that the buyer has full control of the artwork, as the copyright and the right to print on other places without creator’s permission. In the condition that NFT is so expensive, this copyright problem is something that people need to think about.

Also, the definition of NFT determines that there are some sort of copyright problems coming up. As the original artist that create the NFT is allowed to create derivative works from the NFT already sold, there might be NFTs that are similar, or maybe the buyer will not be happy. Yet the original artist has the right to do so, therefore, the buyer could not sue the artist, which makes the situation hard to explain.