Is Creative Commons the right path for artists in Web3?

“Artists grabbed the concept and used the blue background in their art and minted it. As an artist, it opens doors of creativity and challenges. Here, the piece of art was not only seen, but used by others.” While the idea of trading copyright for exposure might make some of us cringe, the response to the “BLeU” craze resulted in an explosion of views, and a huge sale of the original.

When asked how they felt about seeing their work in so many renditions, tjo told us, “I think it’s great. And I think it’s not crypto native of itself but crypto gives it sense, in the way that before NFTs there was hardly any way to claim ownership of anything else than the rights, when now you have tangible digital ownership and usage can give value to the original, as it is traceable and tangible in a sense.”

In contrast, Bryan Brinkman, who added a couple of his Tweets to Grant Yun’s “gn” in early August, told us that “personally, I think CC0 is a tool that allows for mass marketing and derivatives, but I worry it gives away too much ownership from artists. To me, it is the antithesis of why most joined the web3 space.”