Buying a book is not the same thing as buying the copyright to a book. Just because I have “Star Wars” on DVD doesn’t mean I can make my own sequel.
Previously, I had made a personal pledge to never learn anything about NFTs , but two things happened recently to break that pledge and take a closer look.
Somehow, and the technical necromancy behind this remains beyond me, but I believe the people who say so, blockchain technology makes it so you can designate one digital file an original and everything else is a copy. The result is the ability to make digital objects that are as scarce as real-world objects.
Burning the book seems to have fallen by the wayside, thankfully, since there are only a handful of copies of Jodorowsky’s artifact.Unfortunately for the purchasers, buying a book is not the same thing as buying the copyright to a book. Just because I have “Star Wars” on DVD doesn’t mean I can make my own sequel.
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