Smartists Licenses ANNOUNCEMENT
Smartists Licenses ANNOUNCEMENT
Dear Smartists community friends,
I am happy to share that the work we have been doing for the design of our Smartists IP Licenses is going to be tested by one of our community members and long time benefactor, Mirlo Music.
Mirlomusic.btc has been creating NFTs collections via Gamma.io during the past year. Let’s remember the NFTs collection Mirlos for Artists, some tokens many of you received as a welcoming present to the Smartists community.
So far, Mirlomusic.btc has always clearly stated that, for their tokens as well as for their underlying files, they reserved all rights.
The explanation
“All Rights Reserved” is actually the default legal protection of any IP Art work -digital or physical- in case there is no explicit copyrights management by its creator. Mirlo Music wants to make this clear, because of the lack of regulation and little awareness about this very important matter for independent authors. Moreover, this also affects buyers who deserve to know their actual rights of use -what they are legally allowed to do and what they cannot do- with every piece of art they purchase tokenized as an NFT.
Up until now, IP management has not been easy on the web3, and when minting NFTs Mirlo Music Editions has found the solutions proposed really inconvenient, since they had only the choice to adhere to some terms which did not serve their business model as independent creators. That was not what they expected from the Internet of Value they were initially so happy to participate in, and this is the reason they decided to join forces with Smartists.
The Announcement:
Mirlo Music Editions will be providing a Genuine Smartists License 00 [GTL00] for their Digital Collectibles: the basic FREE , NON-EXCLUSIVE and PERSONAL (Non-commercial) License.
More Information coming soon.
If this resonates and you want to contact me to know more or to consider a similar approach for your business as an independent artist, please contact us or leave a comment.
Moreover, as an artist on the web3 , I recently interviewed Manuel Gimferrer, the artist behind Mirlo Music Editions.
+ NEW interview in The Smartists BLOG
Manuel Gimferrer, Mirlopiano on Discord, is a musician educated in classical music who is also an entrepreneur in the field of Digital Editing using his own performances and compositions, and collaborating with other artists in this new web3.
Read the interview and know how he is using dApps and NFTs while exploring new opportunities for artists.
Finally, as we are getting to the end of Q1, I think it’s time for a first reflection on our next steps. That will come in our next newsletter.
Have a nice change of Season and stay tuned!
Georgina Mauriño, founder and community lead.
SMARTISTS
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