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For what it's worth, there's no way you can force every image manipulation tool and library to respect the NFTs, and the NFT can't necessarily point to a specific item itself (since the location it points to could move), so there's no permanent effective way to actually make those two connect.

As far as I can tell, the only thing that NFTs might be useful for is uniquely identifiable assets whose unique identification can be embedded in the NFT itself; for example, a car's VIN number or a property's address or lot number. Unfortunately, we already have much more effective and well-regulated systems to handle both of those situations, and I'm at a loss for any circumstance in which an NFT would be better and also guaranteed effective.

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> For what it's worth, there's no way you can force every image manipulation tool and library to respect the NFTs,

Correct. But the license owner can require the license buyer to use editors that preserve NFTs or be subject to automated DMCA notices. Once Adobe and Apple start respecting the NFT-copyright-format in their tools, other commercial vendors will be forced by the market to support it too.

Again, I'm not in favor of any of this. Just admitting that I am pessimistic enough to see where all of this could end up eventually.

That already exists with physical money. There are a lot of printers and scanners and software that will not copy 20 dollar bills.

In theory you could add all of NFT Images into the software but what happens when someone creates an NFT of a basket ball. Are you going to stop people from printing any picture with a basketball in it?

That’s a lot of extra steps instead of just using a format with DRM.

extra steps, that summarizes everything related to crypto

yeah but why does that need to be an nft and not just a centralized application that serves that data via an api?

the license holder could require license buyers to use editors the preserve the claim via that centralized application?

It doesn't need to be, but it could turn out that way. Perhaps someone convinces the masses that a distributed blockchain is preferable and then it gets built and persists on first-mover advantage.

The NFT could always be self-referential and point to the hash of the image itself which would be accessible on IPFS or another content-addressed network.

Just for thought exercise:

If github wants to add NFT to support its users to monetize the users generated contents, how would github do that?

Or how might a special NFT/PDF reader sw enables the PDF creators to monetized their creations?

not if you cropped it in the webside and (like in this case) don't have the original files.

You could use a perceptual hash, which would work as long as you had the entire image in any format.

>"I legally (and most likely naively) bought a stock photo CD but did not have that in my possession any longer"

Explain exactly how pissing away all that electricity by burning all that coal and generating all that carcinogenic pollution and greenhouse gas would have caused him to not lose the entire original image just like he lost the original stock photo CD?

You could one way hash the asset, along with the initial resolution and other characteristics, and lock that data in the NFT. As long as you have the NFT, and the original digital work stores somewhere to rehash, you could prove ownership.

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