NFTs have proven themselves as a way for larger artists to make decent, if not significant, extra income in the past few months specifically. I realize that they may not be as relevant for stock footage, but my guess is that they still have potential. Has anybody tried creating and selling NFTs, and if so, on what platforms?

I'm waiting for Ethereum fees to come down, or I'll use alternative blockchains, if I can be bothered with NFTs. This one is on the Hive blockchain, so it costs much less to make an NFT, but they wont have as many buyers https://lensy.io/ I see EOS Voice is going to implement NFTs, that might be worth using, as they should have a lot to spend on advertising.

Have account on mintable, opensea and rarible. For mintable and opensea you don't need to pay gas upfront now. There is a lot of hype and to be honest i did not put on sale yet. Last year I just register and put some of my work for fun there but not available for sale.

I did not try the invitation yet for Superare, foundation or nifty gateway. the invitation process requires an interview video, website and/or a lot of social media accounts (more is better). I heard rumors that this last three takes a cut from your sale but i could not understand exactly how much.   

For Stock Photo & Video Marketplace there is a site that is being build for NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens). It's not launched yet but you can joined the email list so you know when it will be launched. I know this from "photerloo" youtube channel 2/3 weeks ago... the site: https://www.uniquestock.io/​ 

There is other one called https://www.unique.one/ where you can mint with different coins instead of Ethereum with BSC and xDAI. Never tried...

Maybe its my age but I can just about grasp Crypto. NFT are a mystery to me....you seem to be paying for virtually nothing....

You're doing better than me, I can't grasp Crypto at all.
One thing which interested me is that I've recently joined a couple of totally unrelated facebook groups, and noticed that both of them said in their 'group rules' that there was to be no discussion about Crypto on the groups, from which I'm inferring that there is some concerted effort by crypto-fans, or those who stand to benefit, to infiltrate internet groups.

Quote from: Pauws99 on May 30, 2021, 06:31

Maybe its my age but I can just about grasp Crypto. NFT are a mystery to me....you seem to be paying for virtually nothing....

You're doing better than me, I can't grasp Crypto at all.
One thing which interested me is that I've recently joined a couple of totally unrelated facebook groups, and noticed that both of them said in their 'group rules' that there was to be no discussion about Crypto on the groups, from which I'm inferring that there is some concerted effort by crypto-fans, or those who stand to benefit, to infiltrate internet groups.

I get quite a few posts on totally unrelated Facebook groups urging me to make my fortune from various Crypto schemes.

Sort-of related, I am thinking about rebuilding my personal stock photo site, but with a cryptocurrency shopping cart. I know there some for Woo and EDD, but has anyone seen a generic one I can use for other Wordpress carts? I have a donations and EDD one on my regular website for my books, but one for a far larger library is something I'd be interested in...

The primary reason for creating an NFT is to have a record of ownership on the Ethereum blockchain, not making money.

I've been involved in buying and selling cryptocurrency for about 6 years now, and the most important thing to understand about it is the purpose of blockchains. There's several different types. In the case of NFTs, the blockchain acts as a ledger and records transactions, contracts, etc. Various uses include cataloging county records, real estate transactions, antique collections and transactions, etc. I'm planning on creating NFTs for my physical antique collection, so I can have a record of ownership in case of a fire or theft. If anything is stolen, I can prove I'm the rightful owner should it turn up somewhere. If my house burns down, I can prove my insurance company that I owned this collection.

I'm also going to do the same for my best photography and digital art. What's so great about this is I no longer have to save all my RAW files or PSD files to prove I created my photos. I can prove it via the record on the blockchain and produce those files via the website where I uploaded them.

Because the blockchain is a ledger that records transactions, sales of my antiques or photography are also recorded on the blockchain, if they are sold on auction or art sites that deal in NFTs. It's the NFT record that is most valuable, because it establishes and tracks provenance. For example, I have a complete press kit for the debut of "The Simpsons" that I got at a national college journalism conference that I'd like to sell one day. Matt Groening chose the conference to announce "The Simpson's" because he'd been a journalism major, got his start at his college newspaper, and wanted to give us the scoop. I can document that when I create and later mint an NFT for the press kit, and that documentation will follow it for the life of the press kit. It also documents the press kit actually exists (or existed, in the event it's lost or destroyed).

For all these reasons and more, NFTs aren't just a bubble waiting to burst.

As for making money from selling your art (or whatever), it can definitely be done. Just make sure you price your work so it covers your time and expenses at the very least (including the gas fee for minting and equipment/office costs). Only mint and sell your very best work. Price it fairly, but don't overprice hoping for a huge sale or sell yourself short. Keep in mind you're selling the original, not a copy. That adds value, too. You can also sell images as limited editions, which lets you lower the purchase price to something more reasonable. So say I want to sell an image for $1000. That might seem like too much money for an original by an unknown artist, but if I sell 5 limited editions at $200 each, I can still earn the $1000 I believe it's worth. Those who buy them know they aren't getting the original (or my copyright), because they're limited editions.

Etc. etc. etc. 

i haven't tried it yet, but the thing that's bother me is, how buyer can know that seller is real owner of the art he is selling?

what if someone stole some stock illustration or photo and sell it as NFT?

then whole that blockchain thing is useless, please explain me if I am wrong?

It is actually happening. There's two relatively weak defense mechanisms against it:
1. Big and known marketplaces is curated and invite-only. So they track who they work with.
2. Community is social-network based, so if you have a name, you have sales. If not - you just waste the money on minting. And you can't build a name on stolen images.
Also, there's a possibility to write an abuse. Sometimes you can't find it on the marketplace, but you can try to reach the team in Twitter or there's may be a channel in Discord.

What I see as much worse and complicated thing is collages and photoshopped images. It's difficult to draw the line between art and copyright. You can not blame Picasso to include scraps of newspaper articles or Marcel Duchamp for using a factory-made urinal. The same is here. People do use third-party sources.

� If anything is stolen, I can prove I'm the rightful owner should it turn up somewhere.�

Except it doesn�t prove anything.  How about I make an nft for the Mona Lisa and then claim it was stolen?  None of that making a digital file about something and making it an nft �proves� anything.

NFTs are so young, I feel like many questions was not even asked yet.
You mixing up proof of authorship and proof of ownership. Microstocks are more about first, NFTs are 100% about second. Proof of authorship for NFTs is questionable, but it is as solvable, as any other PoA in the Internet.

Right click and save.... save hundreds or thousands of dollars. Lemmings over the cliff.

Right click and save.... save hundreds or thousands of dollars. Lemmings over the cliff.

Sure, you can just listen to the music on Bandcamp. Why pay?

Also, all thousands are already paid and spent. You can't just be a second Michael Jackson. Or make a living with 500 photos on Shutterstock, like in 2005. The moment is gone here, and moment is gone there.

https://theconversation.com/how-nonfungible-tokens-work-and-where-they-get-their-value-a-cryptocurrency-expert-explains-nfts-157489

interesting: "each NFT transaction on the Ethereum network consumes the equivalent of daily energy used by two American households."

and creating an nft isnt simple -- see http://erc721.org/

and of course, we're back to the same old discussion about self-hosted websites - how are people supposed to find your 'unique' nft?