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by jcranmer 1625 days ago
I haven't actually read the legal documents of NFT creation sites in detail, but given the general trend of digital content contracts, it is very likely that (even were the NFT itself not a copyright violation in the first place, as sibling comment describes) you are not the legal owner of the copyright in that NFT anyways. What you would instead own is no more rights to that NFT than, say, HN has to the copyrighted content I am writing in this textbox, which is something along the lines of:

> a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed

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I actually did read a few (those that actually had them), and asked follow up questions in Discord. The view from the teams generally was no transfer of rights to the NFT holder, you have the control of transferring the NFT via smart contract and that is all. The NFT has a relationship with typically a piece of content (image, mp3) but what that relationship isn't actually defined.

What a particular platform does when it sees that relationship is up to them. If no platform does anything with that data then your NFT does exactly nothing.