Game Artists Not Happy That Developer Is Selling Their Nearly Decade-Old Work As NFTs
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Image: Jason Rohrer
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The question at the heart of this week’s incessant NFT debate is one of ownership: How, in the digital age, can one really own anything? And when somebody purchases a glorified gif or jpg for mind-boggling amounts of money, what do they even own? Not rights. Not the sole copy of the image. So what? Now indie developer Jason Rohrer has added a new wrinkle by creating an NFT auction using artwork he commissioned from other people in 2012 long before NFTs were ever created.