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> It's true that copyright is not transferred but courts may well recognize the buyers right to display those images on a website as implicitly given.

No. Copyright must be explicitly assigned.

> Also, consider that in NFTs, the only one selling an NFT to the Mona Lisa is Leonardo.

Nah anyone can do it any time.



> No. Copyright must be explicitly assigned.

No one is talking about assigning copyright. The question is about a license to display the content on a website. I am fairly certain you have heard of non-verbal contracts before. For example, here is what the UK government has to say about an implied copyright license:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/license-sell-or-market-your-copy...

> Nah anyone can do it any time.

Anyone can also sell a signature of Clooney. And yet no one does, nor would anyone buy it. This is not something that plays into a serious analysis of the NFT space, and so I am not sure why you would want to find it interesting to talk about.


Nfts explicitly grant exactly no rights whatsoever and you will not find a judge that will impose that burden.




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