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Forum - View topicAre NFTs a Viable Collaboration for Creating Anime?
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Nagatoka_Morito
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Short answer: No.
Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. [Moderator Edit: Length of "no" shortened because it broke our layout.] |
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InfiniteNothingness
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And yet, all this time, it's been plenty obvious that Touhou Project is the work of the one and only ZUN, and none of this rubbish need get involved for the artists or ZUN's own ownership. Utterly absurd. But it's obviously just a trash pile of meaningless buzzwords anyway. |
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yeehaw
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Do people still buy NFTs? You don't really hear about them so I kinda assumed the people who thought they were a good idea came to realize their mistakes, but maybe they just stopped talking about it out of shame?
It's so weird because even if a character isn't an NFT, it's still copyrighted? Baffling. |
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Greboruri
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Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again.
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FishLion
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The pikachu examples especially strange to me because it's not like the guy didn't know The Pokemon Company owns Pikachu??? In what way would NFTs solve this, is the suggestion that Nintendo sell Pikachu tokens that will allow Pilachu doujin to be published?
People already have contracts and same-day licenses, it just sounds like a gimmicky way to add a bunch of waste and extra costs because some companies want to lease OCs. |
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King Chicken
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Just a quick glance suggests yes. Apparently Snoop Dogg dropped some new NFT collection a few days ago and they sold out within minutes. Other projects report similar popularity so it seems they're still doing well. You might see less discussion because it's old news at this point? A lot of the initial buzz was from speculator investors trying to get rich quick and the anti NFT bros who were outraged over them. It's possible both those groups moved on to greener pastures like AI which seems more prevalent in the news and social circles these days. Perhaps most of the NFT market these days are people who actually like and collect them rather than outside groups who were only using them for clout initially. That might explain why it's quieter now.
They are suggesting that with NFTs you can also sell the copyright to the character with the token so when you buy the token you don't have to worry about making fan works with the character in the NFT like you do other works which are at the whim of the IP holder. Japanese copyright is very draconian. The artist knew TPC owned Pikachu but fanartists usually bank on the company not caring and letting it slide. That wasn't the case in that situation and TPC went after Pokemon fan artists. Uma Musume taking off recently has gotten a lot of negative attention in Japan as well from people upset westerners are not following the guideline of not making porn of the girls that the company asked them follow.. I don't know if Cygames is going to do anything about it or it's only a thing Japanese people have to worry about. It's something that makes more sense in Japan where copyright laws are a lot more strict than in America since you can just go on Etsy or any anime convention vendor hall and find tons of unofficial bootleg merchandise of anime characters. |
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FishLion
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I got that was the suggestion, i was just a bit incredulous and I guess my main point was more that I can't see TPC ever selling a Pikachu NFT.
Big brands like control over their image and the images associated with them, and most companies that like that control probably don't want a side hustle selling miniature licenses with a lot of varying rules. Things like people not following fan works' rules would not be solved either, it's not like people who don't follow the rules would suddenly follow them because they were in the fine print of something. So in other words "NFT with embedded copyright" does not enable new possibilities and this just seems to be a solution in search of a problem. Companies can already make contracts to share rights and people will still break rules regardless, all NFTs do is let some people sell their OCs the same way they could before but with a new gimmick to attract people that adds extra cost and waste. Even stuff like that Snoop Dawg collection people just buy it because it has Snoop Dawg's name on it, that man puts out more products with his name on it than Trader Joe's. I think "success" stories like that are just successful because people buy into the branding and they won't work for most companies, especially as the FOMO passes. I'm not buying NFTs are the next big thing when they were being shown in every corner of media a few years back and didn't find success then. Well have to see what happens, but I just don't believe any music artists could sell NFTs and I also don't necessarily believe that Snoop could sell these forever. |
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jroa
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While I have no interest in Azuki nor in NFT, it looks like they also talked about some interesting aspects, like that comment about young animators and how the industry is lacking people who can draw cars or robots by hand rather than using computer graphics.
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groovysunbeam
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Anything is a viable method to fund or merchandise anime. If we're fine with gacha games or other limited merchandise regulated to lottery systems which are hugely common in Japan than NFTs should be no different. Not into them myself but then I'm also not into those cheap little acrylic stands that seem to be popular. Or Funko Pops.
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Greed1914
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I think this is pretty accurate. Major companies were looking at it, but have shifted hard into jamming "AI" into everything since the chance to make make the kinds of money off of NFTs that would interest them dried up fast. Some seem to do pretty well, provided you're the celebrity who starts it and gets a quick cash out. It seems like it's almost settled into its own version of a collector's market where people have convinced themselves it will be worth it because someday someone else is going to think what they have is in any way special. |
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Meexa
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NFTs are officially dead, so absolutely not. Bitcoin was the only one to come out alive.
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