Art by Anish Kapoor and David Bailey, who were sold as NFTs without their consent

Star Wars Stormtrooper-Helms by artists such as Sir Anish Kapoor and David Bailey were photographed without their consent and sold as non-fungible tokens (NFT), whereby the pictures were sold on Monday for millions of pounds.

curator Ben Moore photographed some of the helmets from a project called Art Wars, which has been created by more than 300 artists since 2013, and sold them against cryptocurrency as NFTs on the OpenSea trading platform. More than 1,600 Ethereum (£ 5 million) have been broadcast since the collection of 1,138 pictures was offered for sale yesterday.

A Kapoor attributed NFT had a price of 1,000 Ethereum when it was already marketed on the website for resale on Monday, while another Bailey attributed work for 120 Ethereum was offered for resale. Both pictures have now been removed from the side.

About 12 artists consider legal action against the project, according to legal representatives.

A representative of Bailey said he had not given permission or received the proceeds of the sale. They said they were going to do the thing. Kapoors team refused to comment.

Damien Hirst, whose work was recorded to apply the collection but was not sold as a NFT, did not respond to a request for comment.

The species WARS NFT page on OpenSea was switched off yesterday. OpenSea stated that he had received an indication of a copyright infringement and to have been fulfilled.

The dispute underlines the debate about the possession of NFTS. Buyers of NFTS do not have the physical work of art and digital versions are sometimes sold without the permission of the original owners, which leads to conflicts about intellectual property.

Moore sent an email to artists on November 4 to inform them about the collection, but some artists said that the email had landed in their junk folders, her lawyers claimed.

Moore did not make the claim that he had created the NFTs without the artist's permission. "[Art Wars] regrets that some of the artists have been surprised and have been advised not to be accepted since then - of course we respected these wishes," he said.

All artists remaining in the project would "receive license fees in the usual way," added Moore, said that the NFT project collected £ 30,000 for charitable purposes.

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Moore said people could assume that he would state, but it was a "little sign of celebration".

The artist Helen Downie, who lives in London, who bears the name of Unskilled Worker, is one of those who threaten with legal steps after finding out that two of her helmets were sold as NFTS via Twitter.

"I was first marked in a tweet of a buyer who said he was pleased to have a piece of my work," she said. “The problem was that I had no idea how they bought it.

"If the exploitation of the intellectual property of artists remains unchallenged, this behavior will ruin and corrupt a really exciting space for artists and collectors."

The photographs of art of unskilled workers were successfully removed from the OpenSea platform on request.

The Design and Artists Copyright Society said that the characteristics of NFTS without the permission of the artists had to “destroy the potential of how we as a society appreciate creativity”. It provides inquiries for several artists involved.