dorincard
Member 
Posts: 1,623 
What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
|
Post by dorincard on May 27, 2022 4:21:40 GMT
Hi, everybody! I am researching what philatelic NFTs can be created by a private philatelist, like you or me. Maybe based on personalized stamps that I designed in 4 countries, like at Zazzle in USA? Maybe based on a postally-circulated cover, postcard or maxicard before 1921, let’s say? No IP protection there. Maybe based on modern postage stamps that are in the public domain, from some countries? What do you think? thedigitalphilatelist.com/opinion-philately-and-non-fungible-tokens-nfts-part-2/ |
|
kasvik
Member
Posts: 607
What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
|
Post by kasvik on May 27, 2022 6:09:39 GMT
Hi, everybody! I am researching what philatelic NFTs can be created by a private philatelist, like you or me. Maybe based on personalized stamps that I designed in 4 countries, like at Zazzle in USA? Maybe based on a postally-circulated cover, postcard or maxicard before 1921, let’s say? No IP protection there. Maybe based on modern postage stamps that are in the public domain, from some countries? What do you think? thedigitalphilatelist.com/opinion-philately-and-non-fungible-tokens-nfts-part-2/
Especially with modern stamps, copyright infringement seems a booger. The club worked through related issues like use of Scott numbers. We had somebody sharp on the topic. Big lesson: with American stamps, pre-1971 are safe. Philatelic Copyright Discussion and the later posts on TSF Virtual Meeting: Copyright & Philately Presentation
|
|
|
|
Post by michael on May 27, 2022 6:41:21 GMT
dorincard, have you researched the cost of creating an NFT both in terms of money and the impact on the environment? Here's what I just googled: Considering how the cost of energy has more than DOUBLED recently in the UK, NFTs seem a complete waste of a valuable resource. You did ask what we think 
|
|
philatelia
Member
Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,655
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
|
Post by philatelia on May 27, 2022 8:09:45 GMT
I read “non-fungible” and thought for a moment that we were talking about a mushroom aversion.  Someone needs coffee. |
|
angore
Member
Posts: 5,700
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
|
Post by angore on May 27, 2022 10:12:02 GMT
I do not have any interest in NFTs as I have seen so far. I recognize there are always people trying to get you to buy something.
|
|
dorincard
Member
Posts: 1,623
What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
|
Post by dorincard on May 27, 2022 14:31:39 GMT
Yes, kasvik, good points! Copyright disputes is what killed the personalized stamps program in USA, too. Read many copyright articles links in the comments to this: link.medium.com/AGxIM7jdnqbYou refer to Charles Oppenheim, I presume. I read many opinions, and I'd say that at least the pre-1921 stamps of any country are free of copyright. Unless I'm wrong. |
|
dorincard
Member
Posts: 1,623
What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
|
Post by dorincard on May 27, 2022 14:45:56 GMT
Yes, Michael, minting an NFT consumes resources.
I just want to experiment, see if I can "monetize" a bit (or more), then I could give up, if it helps the planet...😉
|
|
dorincard
Member
Posts: 1,623
What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
|
Post by dorincard on May 27, 2022 14:50:52 GMT
philatelia and angore: noted.
Selling is part of the mankind's "character trait".
And P.T.Barnum was right about "a sucker is born every minute". Actually, there are many suckers and "suckers" arriving on scene.
I don't want to buy or collect philatelic NFTs.
Except I might want to create some maxicards with official Post-issued cryptostamps, someday.
But if I could sell some NFT artwork of a philatelic nature, then hey!...
|
|
dorincard
Member
Posts: 1,623
What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
|
Post by dorincard on May 27, 2022 15:03:50 GMT
My Twitter friend Rais @nft_luckyrais said that he created NFTs at no cost.
"Setting up a Metamask wallet also costs nothing.
In general, registration in Opensea and Metamask, mint NFT and putting up for sale - all this without spending crypto."
Opensea marketplace.
Polygon blockchain.
Metamask digital wallet.
Rais is selling NFTs with "digital images of watercolor paintings, with frames that resemble a postage stamp".
|
|
|
|
Post by michael on May 27, 2022 16:36:00 GMT
Your friend is expecting someone to spend between $40 and $3,500 on an image of a watercolour painting in the form of a postage stamp as an NFT digital image. He doesn't own the copyright to the image and anyone could create the same image with the same postage stamp design and sell it in the same way....
I note he hasn't sold any yet and you want to do the same?
|
|
dorincard
Member
Posts: 1,623
What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
|
Post by dorincard on May 27, 2022 17:45:32 GMT
Michael: no, no and no. 😁
I had no idea about his asking prices, and it doesn't even matter, for our discussion.
Whether he finds a buyer, remains to be seen.
He said that he modified the photos [derivative work] when painting the watercolor paintings.
If somebody successfully sues him for infringement, then he was wrong.
No, I don't want to do what he did with photos and paintings.
I said in the first post what I consider doing.
|
|
Someone needs coffee.