Isn't an NFT a Copyright?

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An nft as a p is a technological construct, right? It's the digial ownership you can d nowyu at to give. But i just want to dive into the technology of nfts specifically to interrogate that claim. The way i think about it, if you buy a biby ting, i'm not buying the copyright. Why do i need this technology to buy a copy of a song? I don't. Well, it'sasif every other technology you use, the service can just decide to take it away in a whim. And you're renting it, you're not buying it. What you're buying is a digital object, which is a concept

Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading funding rounds for Coinbase, which went public about a year ago, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Yuga Labs, which is behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club among others. He is also a prolific user of Twitter, where he posts lengthy threads about crypto and web3. He is at once one of the biggest investors in the space, and its biggest booster.

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