🎀 benna 🎀🎩
@benna
a thought this morning: assuming Zora & Rodeo’s ‘creative social’ model aims to reach more normies, it will always stay a place for creators/artists posting pictures of their own work only OR photos that people take themselves of non-copyrighted material. Web2 socials brush the question of copyrighted material under the carpet most of the time and ppl mostly just accept it because the person posting isn’t making money from the post. For eg) I can post photos of an exhibition I went to without any backlash on Instagram. If I were to do the same on Zora or Rodeo, and earn money from a photo of an artists work on display, this could quickly involve commercialised copyright issues. So posting certain forms of content on these platforms is defacto limited. If the apps do indeed scale one day to involve millions of users that aren’t aware of these legalities, how would these platforms respond? wondering if anyone else has thought about this.
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aesthetica✿
@aesthetica.eth
so two side idea to this: so many things get lost. ipfs links die or get unpinned or cloud storage isn't maintained b/c $$. like the link and the transaction are still 'there' but w/ non-code//program art (i.e., images, video formats) unless its stored in a 'protected' way there is no guarantee. tons of things go 'missing' or get lost after a few years & will anyway... so there's no reason to believe they couldn't also (to use ipfs speak) not keep things 'pinned' which would cause them to disappear. also, as we know (or at least i know from zora) i could just upload a new image and nuke something ppl have bought. if there's any backdoor w/ zora to 'just' be able to upload... arweave might be an answer, but ppl have to pay for storage, but many platforms don't want to pay b/c they want you to pay, right? tldr: most things will disappear, collect carefully from artists that know what they're doing ;)
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🎀 benna 🎀🎩
@benna
regarding deleting posts that infringe upon copyright (or deleting minted posts in general), this is true. they could just let the storage of the images die out. but if i understand correctly, the historical imprint of whatever was minted (even if the media deteriorates) will always be there as long as the blockchain lives, right? so let's say millions of posts are deleted on Zora/Rodeo due to copyright infringement. We'll have tons of 'ghost' blocks that don't link out to any media, but will forever be on the blockchain. seems like a waste, but could be an excellent base for a conceptual artwork ahahah. btw @benoit-tokyo and i are currently writing an article about digital art conservation & the blockchain haha so glad you brought this up!
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