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Hello everyone, I am Chen, a screenwriter from Taiwan. The environment for professional screenwriters in Taiwan sucks, and I've always wanted to do something to improve it.
Recently I've turned a logline into 101 independent NFT cards with my dogs' pics, which I haven't seen anyone else do it so far. This is a story about three dogs swapping souls with some serial killers. I hope one day I can sell this idea to Hollywood.
I was trying to make the script easier to enjoy, and use the properties of the blockchain to secure copyrights, this method also might help screenwriters find people who would love or even sponsor their story idea early in the development of their scripts, maybe get some fee that can maintain their livelihoods as a crowd-funding.
You don't have to buy them, but if you support this idea to make a better environment for screenwriters, please share this with more and more people, perhaps consider starting to make your own logline NFT as well. I hope that in the future, every scriptwriter can directly use the existing resources at hand to produce their own NFT!
If you see the potential of these NFTs and want to buy them, well, I definitely don't mind lol
After all, if one day the copyright is bought and made into a movie, this series of NFT may have room for value-added.
NFTS are horrible for the environment, due to the amount of electricity required to run them. Plus, they're pretty stupid in general. You're essentially selling a receipt, rather than the actual work, if I understand NFTs correctly.
I must be getting old, because I still don't quite understand what NFTs are. I still use cash. I know how that works.
NFT's are basically a digital certificate of ownership over a digital asset.
If you are an art collector, you hand over some money, you receive a physical piece of original art to hang on your wall and be admired by only you and your guests.
If you are a moron, you hand over some money, you receive* the NFT of the first-ever tweet posted by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. You can't do anything with the tweet, and other people can still see it on twitter, but you just spent $2.9m to own it. (Although, in the future some other moron might buy it off you for even MORE money)
*and by "receive" I mean you don't actually receive anything, the NFT and your ownership of it is just stored on a blockchain
If you are a moron, you hand over some money, you receive* the NFT of the first-ever tweet posted by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. You can't do anything with the tweet, and other people can still see it on twitter, but you just spent $2.9m to own it.
Haha. I liked that description that was going around a while ago:
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imagine if you went up to the mona lisa and you were like "i'd like to own this" and someone nearby went "give me 65 million dollars and i'll burn down an unspecified amount of the amazon rainforest in order to give you this receipt of purchase" so you paid them and they went "here's your receipt, thank you for your purchase" and went to an unmarked supply closet in the back of the museum and posted a handmade label inside it behind the brooms that said "mona lisa currently owned by jacobgalapagos" so if anyone wants to know who owns it they'd have to find this specific closet in this specific hallway and look behind the correct brooms. and you went "can i take the mona lisa home now" and they went "oh god no are you stupid? you only bought the receipt that says you own it, you didn't actually buy the mona lisa itself, you can't take the real mona lisa you idiot. you CAN take this though." and gave you the replica print in a cardboard tube that's sold in the gift shop. also the person selling you the receipt of purchase has at no point in time ever owned the mona lisa.
unfortunately, if this doesnt really make sense or seem like any logical person would be happy about this exchange, then you've understood it perfectly
Just be careful chaps. I'm seeing a lot of NFT scams out there and hackers using them. Surprisingly, some are aimed specifically at screenwriters or people pretending to be producers using NFT's to raise money for movies that never get made.
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