There’s no guarantee that when a work of digital art is being sold as an NFT that those profits will be going back to the creators.

another huge problem and growing criticism that crypto-anythings are facing is that they involve an incredible amount of energy and work to maintain.

now, some digital objects and art are being converted into NFTs without the artists’ or creator’s consent, or without a lot of creator knowledge about the downsides of NFTs.

As Amanda Yeo writes at Mashable, “Having an NFT doesn’t give you exclusive use of a work. It doesn’t add any improvement to it. It doesn’t bestow any worthwhile rights you can exercise, beyond the right to sell it. An NFT is merely the very costly, environmentally disastrous, tech bro equivalent of peeing on a hydrant.”

The entire allure of NFTs is that they are unique (literally non-fungible) but also that they can be owned and created by anyone.

there’s no permission required to create them.

The NFT problem has caused many artists to set their accounts to private an in attempt to stop profiteering on their work, yet this shouldn’t be their responsibility. What really needs to happen is that this industry needs to be regulated and our laws about intellectual property and copyright in a digital age need to be seriously updated.