Cardano Founder Sparks NFT Community With New Twitter PFP
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson changed the display image on his Twitter and Facebook account, causing a controversy. Hoskinson apparently used an NFT photo as his new Twitter and Facebook avatar, but without actually buying NFT. The Cardano founder was accused of right-clicking and saving someone’s NFT as an image and using it as a profile picture.
NFT community reacts to Cardano founder using NFT PFP
Several people from the NFT community tweeted to the Caradano founder and asked for clarification on his use of other people’s NFT. JpgStoreNFT CEO Blakelock Brown called out Hoskinson saying, “if you’re reading this, please buy your NFT next time.” The NFT that Hoskinson used was a picture of himself created by NFT artist JAR Heads NFT. Right-clicking and saving NFTs as an image has been a topic of much debate outside of the crypto community, seemingly to reject the whole concept of NFTs. So some in the crypto community accused Hoskinson of going against the unspoken ethics.
Buy an NFT? I don’t buy the IP, nor do I sign a contract giving me royalty-free usage to show. I don’t think Blake understands my broader point about contractual relationships and buyer rights. A NFT is NOT the image any more than a lithograph is a painting
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) 4 January 2023
Charles Hoskinson Justifies Right Click Save NFTs
In response to Twitter user LaithNFT, the Caradno Founder said he liked the photo so he used it as his profile picture. He further added that the artist and NFT owner do not mind because it increased the value of their work and product to have the historical connection to it. When the CEO of JpgStoreNFT asked Hoskinson to buy the NFT he used as a profile picture, he wrote back that he is not buying the IP or signing a contract giving him royalty-free use to display. An NFT is not the image any more than a lithograph is a painting, reasoned the Cardano founder.
That’s it, I right click sooo. I right click so hard. pic.twitter.com/drZ4YhGxvI
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) 4 January 2023
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