Just to be clear: “ownership” in this context means a pinky promise from the creator to not create more NFTs of the same work.
It does not include any copyright assignment, or other aspects of ownership one might think of with physical items.
It does not include any copyright assignment, or other aspects of ownership one might think of with physical items.
The NFT itself is basically some payload (any collection of bytes), a checksum of that payload, and some metadata. What's to stop someone from perturbing the payload by one byte and minting a second NFT? Nothing, really, other than "it's not the first". So yeah it's down to performing due diligence on the vendor and payload to make sure you aren't being snookered.
I think. I get the whole crypto aspect. I don't get the social/contract aspects.
You can verify that the NFT is unique, probably. But it doesn’t get you anything else.