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?

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.

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