Pretty much. They basically serve the same purpose as Copyright Registration. If there is a question of who holds the rights to a work, I can submit my copyright registration as evidence that I claimed the work at that specific date and time. If you can conclusively prove you had it earlier, my later registration is irrelevant.
You creating an NFT of the work and putting it on the block chain before my registration with the copyright office would conclusively disprove my own registration claim to being the original creator. NFTs could be used as evidence of prior art.
NFTs could also be used as evidence of intent to transfer the copyright of a work to another.
Keep in mind, NFTs are evidence, not proof. I could submit an NFT before a court in a court to support my claim of copyright, but the court is going to weigh my evidence against all the other evidence in the case. My ownership of an NFT of my work is not going to replace my signed and notarized agreement to transfer the copyright of the work to someone else.
Pretty much. They basically serve the same purpose as Copyright Registration. If there is a question of who holds the rights to a work, I can submit my copyright registration as evidence that I claimed the work at that specific date and time. If you can conclusively prove you had it earlier, my later registration is irrelevant.
You creating an NFT of the work and putting it on the block chain before my registration with the copyright office would conclusively disprove my own registration claim to being the original creator. NFTs could be used as evidence of prior art.
NFTs could also be used as evidence of intent to transfer the copyright of a work to another.
Keep in mind, NFTs are evidence, not proof. I could submit an NFT before a court in a court to support my claim of copyright, but the court is going to weigh my evidence against all the other evidence in the case. My ownership of an NFT of my work is not going to replace my signed and notarized agreement to transfer the copyright of the work to someone else.