I have always been a bit confused about how this all works in relation to the actual piece of work. Say for instance I make a painting using a tradition medium, say 'oil'. I put that piece up on NTF showroom. This then creates a digital copy. So, is the original painting now owned by someone else and I can not show it to anyone because I don't own it? Or should it be destroyed so the digital copy becomes the piece?
Or are NFT supposed to be purely digital with no real-world equivalent?
I do think the concept is exciting but there is a lot to get my head around not being a digital artist.
At the end of the day, anything that empowers artists to allow them the monetise their world outside of the traditional gallery is a good thing.
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The artist always retains the copyright to the work, the buyer is simply buying the digital token. (when you choose the private option, we do have a commercial option as well, that's another story)
There are some artists who choose to offer additional things like prints or originals to buyers but that is all done seperate as we can't really enforce that on site.
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Thanks for the clarification. I am seriously considering producing some NFT artworks and will be applying for verification soon. Exciting times for the art world and it seems to be a great fit for Hive.
as I understand it...the digital copy exists as an entity in and of itself. The original painting is not and NFT and the NFT is not an original painting. The NFT is the digital image verified and attached to the blockchain same as say... untit of bitcoin. IT is a token on a blockchain and it is track-able and it's ownership verifiable. That is what is being bought/owned...that digital token. beyond that, as far as printing it IRL somehwere...that's you'd want to discuss with the particular NFT platform @juliakponsford and/or @nftshowroom might be able to explain that better.