Custodianship, Copyright, and Provenance: on the non-monetary value of NFTs

The value of NFTs for creators, collectors, and historians goes far beyond this speculative moment. This brief think-post posits that the custodianship of digital art which NFTs facilitate can be central to producing historically vital living archives. It then builds on other discussions around the Blockchain to differentiate, and show some of the relations between, custodianship, copyright, and provenance in the post-NFT era.

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