{"id":5881,"date":"2022-05-17T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/17\/deviantart-is-expanding-its-system-for-flagging-stolen-nft-art\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:43:57","slug":"deviantart-is-expanding-its-system-for-flagging-stolen-nft-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/17\/deviantart-is-expanding-its-system-for-flagging-stolen-nft-art\/","title":{"rendered":"DeviantArt is expanding its system for flagging stolen NFT art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/17\/23077174\/deviantart-protect-nft-crypto-stolen-art-blockchain-detection<\/a>
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DeviantArt is expanding its tool for detecting ripped-off crypto art<\/a>, offering it to artists outside the platform. DeviantArt Protect<\/a>, which launched last year for art posted on the site, will now be available for work that isn\u2019t hosted there as well. Users can upload copies of art to Protect and have it matched against non-fungible token (or NFT) images minted to one of several public blockchains. If an identical or near-identical match is detected, they\u2019ll receive an alert and can send takedown requests to major NFT markets like OpenSea.<\/p>\n

The new version of Protect will let anyone upload 10 images (totaling up to 2GB) and have them monitored for free, or users can sign up for DeviantArt\u2019s $3.95 monthly \u201cCore\u201d service and monitor up to 1,000 images totaling 50GB. Protect scans images minted to the Ethereum, Klaytn, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Palm, Tezos, and Flow blockchains, and if a match is detected, artists can choose to send a pre-filled Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) request asking markets to remove the offending NFT.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately for artists, there\u2019s no simple way to have an image taken off a blockchain, whether the picture is encoded directly into the chain or added as a link that\u2019s hosted somewhere else. \u201cOnce something has been minted to the blockchain, even if after that it\u2019s acknowledged as an infringement, actually having it removed from the blockchain is quite unlikely,\u201d says DeviantArt CMO Liat Gurwicz. The copyright status of NFTs is complicated and largely unsettled in court<\/a>, and associating a crypto token with a piece of art isn\u2019t traditional copyright infringement.<\/p>\n

NFT marketplaces typically display an image of the art in question, however, giving the rightsholder room to demand a takedown. And the vast majority of NFT sales flow through OpenSea<\/a> and a handful of other markets, creating a major bottleneck in the supposedly decentralized system. \u201c[If] it is not reflected in any of the marketplaces, it is highly unlikely that anyone will ever see or attempt to purchase that NFT,\u201d says Gurwicz.<\/p>\n

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