How to Protect Your Digital Art LEGALLY

Do you mint NFT's? If so, chances are that you have been the victim of NFT theft. My name is Ian, and I am a Creator Lawyer. In this video, I give you a step-by-step guide on how to TAKE BACK YOUR ART! I detail the DMCA takedown process for NFT platforms like OpenSea and Rarible, and I give you practical suggestions on how to join me and FIGHT NFT THEFT in the future.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 The Right Click & Save NFT Scam
0:38 Stories of NFT Theft
1:05 The Steps to Fighting NFT Theft
1:11 How to Report NFT Copyright Violations on OpenSea
2:39 How to Report NFT Copyright Violations on Rarible
3:04 NFT Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
4:07 Multi-DRM for NFTs
4:40 Forensic Watermarking to Protect NFTs
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[iancorzine]

Have you been the victim of NFT theft? Tell me your stories so I can include them in future videos.

[Homerboy]

NFT Owners: "SToP STeaLiNG mY nFtS weeEeeEhhHH"

Also NFT Owners: What a nice picture that someone took their time to make! I can steal it to make money off of it!

[Quebot]

I'm quite a noob at NFTs (trying to figure out how to sell myself and have been doing research on it), so excuse me if this is an elementary question. Why do these platforms allow right click to save anyway? It would seem logical enough to omit that opportunity and completely do away with the problems everyone describes about theft. Also about the watermark you mentioned- would it be possible to upload an image with watermarks streaked across and then provide the actual link upon purchase to receive the non-adulterated original and therefore make it blatantly obvious that it is not the correct one if anyone does try to take a photo of it? Thanks.

[leosketches]

😉👍Thank you for this video Ian, is very important for artists and collectors to be aware of this.

[TheAvward]

Noob here! So I had uploaded my art image onto open sea, but before i had time to mint it,
( seems I had to create first and then move onto new page to "sell" ) i got a notice it had been minted, this person ( bot) quickly minted all three of my uploads, before i had time to. I reported it but the powers that be wanted a url where it was- However cannot find them on the site at all, i did find the person's collection through their email but he/she had thousands of non related images, so much so that I couldn't go through all of them and couldn't find it by name? Can the name be changed? How can i prevent this from happening again. I am too scared to upload now.

[Why_Not_]

I'll never stop "stealing" NFT's

[sespider]

The NFT system has been around for yrs now. It wasn't until news that BEEPLE hit it big, did it's popularity explode.
It's incredibly sad and unsetting that security measures have never been put into place.
That said, I'm not at all surprised it hasn't. My art gets stolen, partly modified, and resold by thieves and bots on the regular. And a watermark over the entire work seems to do little to deter them. There are too many automated tools that "content aware" remove watermarks.

[_yashika]

Sorry for the off topic question but I'm not sure who else to ask.
Let's just say we are making YouTube videos on a character from a movie or a show breaking down their character and stuff like that but with our own voiceover and other stuff. If we add some scenes of them from the movie in the video will it be under fair use?

[JoseReyes-bbzf]

A programmer i know wants to help me launch my NFT project. I don't feel comfortable showing my art work. He keeps insisting to take a picture. How do I protect my art work? Is it safe to let him take a picture?

[Prajwal____]

Well whats the use of nft, if it cant detect the steal, they are just like normal image sharing platform

[maxx]

Sorry this comment is not related to this particular video but it's related to one of your previous videos. I tried commenting there but you didn't respond. I need help, I have a question about fair use for videos. Can I take a football goals compilation clip(let's say top 10 goals) is it okay if I cut out like 4 of the goals(5 sec each) and scatter them across several parts of my video with other different clips completely different from that one and of course with commentary? or does it have to be 5 seconds from every single match video? Again I'm sorry I'm asking this question in a completely unrelated video but I am desperate pls.

[VulKus]

NFTs are one of the worst ideas I’ve ever seen, they need to just stop

[grafixnetz]

Greetings! And thanks for this video. Q: If I'm using a digital camera to take photos, does possession of that original RAW file from the camera offer me decent protection? The RAW file contains info about me as photographer and copyright owner including the camera I use and other information. Anyone legitimate copy would still have some of that info attached, even if it is a JPG.
Thanks in advance for your reply.

[fink]

So should I register my copyrights or not? Any assets/art? Thanks 👍😊

[TheAtomicSoul]

A lot of NFTs themselves ARE stolen art. DevientArt has a tool that alerts artists when their art is posted as a NFT. Opensea is ignoring a TON of takedown notices by artists. It's been suggested to them to submit it to their webhost (Google) instead.

[Valquiriagaspar]

This guy that has stolen our NFT made a page on Open Sea, thank God some from above made us check if our account was working well, since our Mint day will be on January 28, 2022, then we saw them 😒

[Nogardtist]

assuming if they even owned the NFT in the first place by own i mean they have the property right and i mean right right
also for a 120K sub and verified there something sus going on as if the subcount is fake and the channel is kinda dead

[cryptoartizmo]

Wow this is great to know thank u so much and glad I’m subscribed now that I am a part of this nft game

[ImperatorZor]

Best way to fight against NFT thieves?

DON'T MAKE NFTs.

[youngxanwar]

I'm the one who stole the nft from your friend