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Canadian court declares Krista Kim copyright owner of ‘world’s first NFT digital home’
The Federal Court of Canada declared that Krista Kim is the “sole author” of House Marsafter the artist was embroiled in a copyright dispute over the NFT-digital home saved.
Kim requested a copyright ownership declaration for Mars House in response to a dispute over the intellectual property of the digital house between it and the viewer who rendered the project.
In a statement earlier this year, the court said: “Krista Kim is the sole author of the work and plaintiffs are the sole copyright owners of the work, including Mars House.”
“The world’s first NFT digital home”
Named Mars House, the digital home designed by Kim was sold on non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace SuperRare in 2021 for 288 Ether ($512,000), a cryptocurrency similar to Bitcoin.
Described by SuperRare as “the world’s first digital home NFT”, it was sold at the height of interest in NFTs, which are based on blockchain technology and act as digital certificates of ownership, allowing one to purchase, to sell digital artwork or designs. and collected.
Shortly after the sale, Argentinian 3D modeler Mateo Sanz Pedemonte, whom Kim commissioned through the independent market Freelancer.comalleged that he was “co-author of the Mars House project”.
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Kim has always disputed these allegations, and Canadian courts have now ruled in his favor.
“Ms. Kim filed suit in the Canadian courts seeking a declaration of copyright ownership of Mars House in response to claims regarding her intellectual property in Mars House,” lawyers representing Kim told Dezeen.
“The Federal Court of Canada has declared that Ms. Kim is the sole author of Mars House and that she and her company Krista Kim Studios Inc. are the sole copyright owners of Mars House.”
Mars House “a fully realized digital environment”
Mars House was designed in 2020 by Kim to be a space that embodied her meditative design philosophy and hired an independent 3D modeler to render the house using Unreal Engine, software commonly used to create video games.
The home overlooks a moody mountain range on Mars and features an open design, floor-to-ceiling glass walls and mirrored finishes. The floors and ceiling of the house are covered in colorful gradient video art made by the artist.
The house can be experienced in virtual reality or superimposed on the real world using augmented reality (AR).
“Mars Houses challenges and expands our understanding of property, space, digital/physical identity and art in the digital age,” Kim told Dezeen.
“It promotes the idea that digital spaces can possess the same value, emotional meaning and utility as physical spaces.”
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“Mars House is not just a virtual structure but a fully realized digital environment that offers a new way to experience art, architecture and design, suggesting a future where our living spaces are no longer confined to the physical world but expand into the vast possibilities of the digital realm,” she continued.
“Furthermore, Mars House contributes to the evolving narrative of digital art by demonstrating its potential to foster new forms of social interaction and engagement within digital spaces.”
In 2021, at the height of the NFT market, several designers and artists sold their works as crypto art, with Christie’s selling a jpeg created by artist Beeple for a record $69 million.
Based in Barcelona Andrés Reisinger sold 10 virtual pieces of furniture for almost $450,000 And Alexis Christodoulou sold his architectural renderings for $340,000.