She paints pieces generally inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's"Starry Night," justHer work has been stolen and sold on Amazon or elsewhere many times,
, and then last week an unknown user put tens of thousands of her pieces for sale on OpenSea as non fungible tokens, aka NFTs.massive online marketplace"Yes, they removed the content. Great," she told Insider."But what about the 37 sales made of my art that was illegal?" Trier said the marketplace is profiting from"illicit" activity and questioned the company's safeguards. Another artist told NBC that asking marketplaces to take down NFTs with his stolen artwork became a daily chore before he finally gave up.
In an emailed statement to Insider, an OpenSea spokesperson said,"We take theft seriously and have policies in place to meet our obligations to the community and deter theft on our platform. We do not have the power to freeze or delist NFTs that exist on decentralised blockchains, however we do disable the ability to use OpenSea to buy or sell stolen items.
The market for NFTs, which are generally digital pieces of art tied to blockchain technology, boomed in 2021, hitting a record $25 billion in sales, according to aAlongside that epic growth has come a new market for stolen artwork. One platform, known as DeviantArt, has actually worked to combat the problem by inspecting blockchains and alerting artists when copies of their work are listed on NFT exchanges, NBC News noted in its report.
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