Andreessen Horowitz wants to fix NFT copyright with its ‘Can’t Be Evil’ license
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#63ANC)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is trying to clean up the messy state of crypto copyright. Last week, the company introduced what it dubs Can't Be Evil" licenses: a series of agreements that let creators grant non-fungible token owners partial or near-complete rights to NFT art. It's fighting a problem many experts have called out - one that's persistently undercut claims that NFTs let you own" a work.
The Can't Be Evil" licenses (named after a common claim about blockchain businesses) are based on the Creative Commons (CC) copyright framework. But unlike Creative Commons, which provides blanket licenses to wide swathes of people, a16z's licenses lay out the relationship between an NFT buyer and the person who created...