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You check the contract address of the collection. These replicas will point to an image url, but will not be part of the NFT collection that was launched. By their very nature, these only replicate existing NFTs, so the earlier NFT is clearly the provenance.

I guess one important thing to understand in these discussions is who exactly are you worried about?

-The original creator?

-The initial purchaser/minter from the original creator's collection?

-The person that currently owns the item in that collection?

-The replicator?

-The replicator that tries to sell a replicant?

-A future buyer that is trying to figure out which one to buy?

These are all distinct people with distinct realities. But people arbitrarily talk about a random one of these market participants as an indictment of the entire NFT concept, when each one is experiencing something unique that is either the same as the existing art world or better. Out of all 6 market participants, none of them encounter something worse than the non-NFT art world. Out of all 6, some of them encounter something better.