Someone Stole The Goblin Ass NFTs
Art theft is rampant on OpenSea, and a real headache for artists, but it usually takes a different form: a person (or bot) uploads an image of the art and sells it as an NFT. OpenSea created a “lazyminting” tool, which made it incredibly easy and free to mint big collections, and scammers took advantage of with stolen art, often scraped from the website DeviantArt by bots. In January 2022, OpenSea announced it would limit the use of the lazyminting tool, partially because the company discovered that 80% of all NFTs that it had to remove for violations, including copyright infringement, were made with the lazyminting tool.
To combat some of this OpenSea has created new tools to try and prevent copycat NFT collections, including its own image recognition tools and human moderators. “Our policies prohibit plagiarism, which we regularly enforce in various ways, including delisting and in some instances, banning accounts,” Allie Mack, a spokesperson for OpenSea told BuzzFeed News. “We recently launched image recognition technology as part of our larger efforts to rapidly build the tech, teams, partnerships and processes to more quickly and effectively enforce against this issue. For copies of content that are not already on OpenSea, users can submit a DMCA request and we will quickly remove the identified items from our site.”
Linnik noted that the scammer had actually lost money on the project, since they had to pay some upfront costs to launch it, and hopefully it will get shut down by OpenSea. He said the Goblin Asses team has filed a content report but, but since they hadn’t officially copyrighted the goblin ass drawings, they didn’t try to do a DCMA request. They haven’t heard back yet on their report.
You can’t keep a nonfungible Goblin Ass down, though. The team has gone ahead and officially launched the REAL collection — this time with a little holographic sticker in the top corner, specifying each JPG has what Linnik calls a “certificate of ass-enticity.”
Art theft is rampant on OpenSea, and a real headache for artists, but it usually takes a different form: a person (or bot) uploads an image of the art and sells it as an NFT. OpenSea created a “lazyminting” tool, which made it incredibly easy and free to mint big…
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