A good number of users and companies are currently entering the trade of what are known as NFT or Non Fungible Tokens . But as happens on so many occasions with technology, not everything is as beautiful or profitable as it seems at first.
Throughout recent times we have been able to see that these digital goods have begun to run through the internet to negotiate for multiple elements. One of the most common in this case focuses on everything related to images and works of art. That is precisely why both end users and famous people have begun to market with these elements and negotiate with the aforementioned NFTs. In fact, we can say that many have created their own NFT associated with certain real assets to trade with them.
Now the point is that certain buyers are beginning to wonder about the real rights they have over their acquisitions of this type. Many have purchased images, cards or works of art through these digital goods . We tell you this because right now it is important to know that a buyer of a non-fungible token, or NFT, is not the owner of the file it represents.
Moreover, we could say that the issuers or creators of these digital elements are the ones who really retain full ownership of those rights. Of course, it is the issuers or creators of these tokens that we are referring to now that confuse potential buyers. And it is that at first they suggest the erroneous idea that from the moment of purchase the new owner is the owner of the digitized work .
You do not own the rights in NFT purchases
This is precisely why the claim that NFTs will usher in a new era in digital property and property rights is not true, at the moment. At first it was expected that the so-called Web3 would improve all this. But in reality the purchase of NFT does not transfer the intellectual property rights of its content . In fact, many claim that this exchange of digital goods includes the usual deceptive and complex license agreements that we have been used to for years.
To all this we can also add the confusion generated by many of the platforms for the marketing of these elements that we use today, such as OpenSea, among others. And it is that they do not provide us with all the necessary information about the agreements that are generated between the parties, the buyer and the seller. On many occasions it has been seen, reading carefully the terms of the agreement, that these platforms disregard everything related to intellectual property rights.
What’s more, they leave vendors at the mercy of everything that has to do with rights, licenses, or powers for the content created through NFT. Therefore, it must be said that the features that characterize the NFTs sold continue to respond to the original owner, the creator of the collection. In short, the buyer of the NFT let’s say that he rents that good, he does not acquire it in its entirety.