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| - Digital art theft is the act of stealing art that has been created on a virtual medium. Digital art is an artistic work that uses the medium of digital technology as part of the creative and/or presentation process. Digital artists commonly use digital media platforms, including social media, to display their works. Digital art theft can include cropping, editing, the claiming of an artist's piece as one's own, and more. Digital art is often stolen by being claimed as property by a person who is not the original creator, then often sold for profit. Recently, with the rise of the non-fungible token (NFT) market (also known as the "NFT boom"), digital art theft has seen a sharp rise as thieves take original art and mint it as an NFT without the artist's knowledge. "Minting" an NFT means uniquely publishing a token on the blockchain in order to make it purchasable. NFTs were create around 2017, and from it a marketplace that caters to digital art selling and collecting has emerged. In this context, the scope of "digital art theft" does not include online piracy, often associated with music, films, and other video content. In addition, the scope does not include the use of digital technology to steal non-digital art. For example, new technological advances have allowed forgers to recreate and sell original pieces that remarkably resemble the authentic piece. (en)
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