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And yet, NFTs grant no 'rights to use': licensing, copyright, terms of use, or any other legal terms of the sort. At its heart, it's because blockchains are not widely recognized as legally authoritative. They /cannot be/, since there is no guarantee that an image is uniquely identified by one NFT across all blockchains, and therefore a court would be required to pick and choose 'winners' when considering which blockchain rightly determines ownership.

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Individual companies/orgs can confer rights to holders through their T&Cs, but that's revocable and hard to prove. For example: https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/terms BAYC gives full commercial rights to holders.

Would be really interesting to actually see that challenged in a court.

Back in the 1990's we used to call things like that "license keys".

As I said, I don't know much about NFTs and I was just commenting out of curiosity. I have no stakes in NFTs.

But if the problem is legal (and not technological) then it may be just a matter of time, given enough adoption. Much like Bitcoins (now running as an official currency of El Salvador).

Perhaps it's a matter of establishing we run on this or that blockchain to make NFTs completely traceable?

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