in a nutshell
- Popular NFT project Moonbirds switches to CC0 license and puts artwork in public domain.
- This means that you are free to use, remix, and commercialize your artwork, just like any other CC0 project.
Tsukidori 2022 is one Most successful NFT projectsGenerated over $500 million in trading volume in a few months. Buying one costs money ETH worth at least $29,000 at the time of writing thisHowever, its creator decided that you don’t have to own Moonbird to use the image.
Proof- Web3 The startup behind the Proof Collective NFTs Groups and Moonbirds—Moonbirds and Recent strange thing NFT collection to CC0, or creative commons zero,license.
Effectively this means that the creator reserves no rights and puts the artwork in the public domain. As a result, anyone can use his Moonbirds or Oddities artwork and likeness to create and sell derivative projects, merchandise, apparel, or anything else.
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today we announce it @moonbirds When @oddities_xyz Transitioning to CC0 public license.
We believe this move honors and respects the values of the internet and web3 and initiates a new significant phase of the project. 🧵…
— KΞVIN R◎SE (🪹,🦉) (@kevinrose) August 4, 2022
Kevin Rose, co-founder of Proof, technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist, said: posted a twitter thread A Web2 veteran, he said Digg’s pioneering features were quickly imitated and iterated by competing platforms.
“The default gut reaction is to protect what you create,” Rose wrote. “But Web3 is a chance to restart everything, to go back to the first principles and revisit it. It’s an opportunity that opens up to people.”
Like other CC0 projects, Moonbirds ethereum A blockchain to prove that an NFT is an original creation. “Moonbirds authenticity does not come from lawyers enforcing trademarks, but from proven provenance and single source of truth,” Rose wrote. smart contract“
Celebrate Sunshine by releasing it into the public domain 🤝
— XCOPY 🏴 (@XCOPYART) August 1, 2022
Proof announcement comes days after pseudonymous crypto artist XCOPY tweeted They also release all previous artwork into the public domain.
XCOPY makes a very different kind of NFT artwork than Moonbirds. sold for millions of dollars each. XCOPY previously registered the artwork of “Right Click, Save As Guy” in the public domain, which sold for approximately $7.1 million in ETH in December 2021.
On Monday, XCOPY wrote that their “summer.jpg” artwork will also be given CC0 status…everything else they make is not a collaboration.
“We haven’t really seen CC0 summer yet, but we believe it’s coming,” wrote XCOPY. [to] All my existing art.
Why CC0?
Proof and XCOPY are the latest major Ethereum NFT creators to capitalize on the growing CC0 movement, but they are not the only ones. nounauctioning one NFT per day, giving the owner a valuable Dao Ministry of Finance Probably the most famous CC0 project in space.
Noun images with box-shaped “noun glasses” can be used for any derivative NFT project. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, seeing Nouns’ aesthetic extend to merchandise and other means in its one year anniversary. Launch approach.
In fact, Nouns glasses are Appeared in a commercial for Bud Light at the last Super Bowl.bud light brand possess the noun NFT While participating in the DAO poll, I didn’t have to own an NFT to use the glasses in a commercial. Harmony.
“We don’t need copyright anymore” Nouns Contributor 4156 Said Decryption November last year. “Just as scholarly citations make the original paper more important, noun citations, whatever form they take, are at least as important as this is our paper and the original paper. make it more important and valuable.”
In other words, in the view of 4156 and many other CC0 proponents, the increased use and pervasiveness of IP should add value to the original NFT creations rather than depriving them of value. . In fact, the goal is to spread the image as widely as a meme.
However, there are NFT owners who could benefit from its open source IP extensions.
“What does CC0+NFT do to media? Bitcoin Done for currency: it turns an adversarial game into a cooperative one. ” 4156 Tweets As one person pointed out in May Extensive a16z cipher description of the CC0 movement announced Wednesday.
It’s an epic experiment, and it’s only been a year at Nouns. On the other hand, Nouns images have already been exposed during the broadcast of the Super Bowl.Nouns DAO not only enables and encourages openly derivative works, but also continues to use its vast funds to invest in IP We fund projects that support the further expansion and adoption of
The Nouns auction and DAO model are unique, but there are many other CC0 projects. goblin town, Cryp Toadz, Mfers, Anonymice, and Blitmap.loot is different A familiar example of the conceptbecause the Fantasy Gear NFT list can be used as the basis for all kinds of projects, including games and narrative products.
Unlike those projects, Moonbirds didn’t start as a CC0 project. Published regardless of what thousands of his NFT owners think. Rose, for his part, seems at peace with the idea of handing over the key to… well, anyone.
“We can’t change our minds,” he tweeted. “We’re rooting for you and can’t wait to help foster and support all your creative endeavours.”
