Anyone can claim ownership of anything, NFT or not. That's why there are lawsuits over ownership of property and wars over disputed territories.
NFT ownership concerns those who engage in the community, just like Bitcoin concerns those who are engaged with it.
What is Bitcoin after all? A transaction record in a distributed ledger. Exactly the same thing as NFT. It exists only because someone said so in a community that use software with the same algorithm to parse transaction records(the ledger distributed as a blockchain).
> NFT ownership concerns those who engage in the community, just like Bitcoin concerns those who are engaged with it.
NFTs don't just get to sit aside from society though. Both as a community and in terms of redefining things like ownership. As we can see in this very conversation.
In some cases NFTs actively embrace regular ownership models. For example Meebits where they very pointedly do not give you ownership of the art, it explicitly remains the property of Larva Labs LLC. And in fact your rights to the use of their IP with the Meebits you buy are extremely limited. Similar is true of cryptopunks.
This has been a fun conversation and you make some interesting points but I'm done for now.
NFT ownership concerns those who engage in the community, just like Bitcoin concerns those who are engaged with it.
What is Bitcoin after all? A transaction record in a distributed ledger. Exactly the same thing as NFT. It exists only because someone said so in a community that use software with the same algorithm to parse transaction records(the ledger distributed as a blockchain).