2 mirrored, bored aftermath-NFF projects lead to controversy about copyright infringement-

in the middle of the hypes The non-fungable tokens (NFT) collector's pieces of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BayC) have appeared two NFT projects that offer almost identical or mirrored versions of the original BayC NFTS. The NFT marketplace OpenSea has taken the NFT projects off the market for violating copyright violations.

2 imitating bored ape yacht club projects cause a sensation

NFT fans have recently discussed two controversial imitators called Phayc and Payc (Phunky Ape Yacht Club). The two projects introduced the N -ambaance versions by bored ape yacht club (BayC) NFTS, which have been easily changed or mirrored.

essentially show the false BayCs to the left instead of the right, and they share exactly the same avatars as BayC original. When the PayC project unveiled its concept, it paid homage to the cryptophunks, which were also similarly styled after-imitated versions of the popular Cryptopunks NFT collection.

"Once was it, the cryptophunks waged war against the tyranny of DMCA", wrote the PayC creators on December 6th. "We agree with the fight. It is time to be Phunky. We bring 10,000 hand -encoded and pephanded NFTs onto the market."

The other project, phayc , was Covered by Coindesk-Autor Tracy Wang on December 30th. Wang stated that the Phayc project "started as a free coin prop notification for the first 8,500 applicants and generated about 60. of the remaining 1,496 sales. “

In addition, both PayC and Phayc on Twitter have disputed which project is the true imitator of the popular BayC NFTs. "I was just informed that there is a imitator of Phayc who started after us. Has anyone else heard of this blasphemy?" The PayC project tweeted on December 29. One person replied and said :

I think the first of you win with your own independent market. Get winners to write the history books, good luck.

after the for cryptopunks (CP) and Bored Ape Yacht Club (BayC) NFTS in 2021 were brought onto the market in 2021, but none of them were approximately identical, mirrored copies of the originals.

Yuga Labs, the makers of BayC, have the copyright for the original work of art of BayC and the artists could take legal steps and submit dmca claim. So far, both CP and BayC have been the most popular NFT collections. While CP was captured $ 2.98 billion in total volume, the original BayC NFT collection achieved a volume of 1.04 billion US dollar.

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