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> Some of the more prized NFTs are entirely on-chain

Oh neat - that's definitely better, I'm sure it increases costs significantly though.

> "treated as a copy."

Are consumers able to easily make informed decisions about which versions of NFT are primal and which are derivative? Seems like a hard problem that would require a lot of expensive moderation by the ecosystems.

> Best NFTs are CC0 licensed and don't confer any legal rights

I love me some CC0, but I'd also love a system where I can self service:

- Identify the owner of a song I'd like to use as background music in a video

- Buy an NFT that represents a license to use that song in a single streaming video

- "Point" that NFT at a file hash of the completed video

- Upload video to youtube and other streaming platforms including a reference to the NFT, making it immune to arbitrary takedown requests.

There are stories of creators who own the rights to a song getting takedown requests on a video that includes it and getting stuck in kafkaesque bureaucracy despite having a valid license. There is no public registry of who is licensed to use a piece of content, so Youtube would have to manually inspect contracts to resolve this - it seems they are grossly understaffed in support to be able to do this. Sure, this is partially due to Youtube's extreme subservience to the IP lobby, but a public system to validate licensing would be extremely valuable IMO.



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