The First SE NFT.

[Toutatis]

So essentially it’s just an image, SE maintains all rights and you just pay for a “transaction”. There’s nothing the buyer can do with these images that cannot already be done by everyone else contrary to a physical copy. No matter what agreement SE enters with the person paying for this, what’s to stop other people from making copies and use it on their phones? I can already download the image and set it as background if I want to. Am I missing something?

A fool and their money...

[DPZ2]

what’s to stop other people from making copies and use it on their phones? I can already download the image and set it as background if I want to. Am I missing something?.

There is nothing stopping someone from creating an image from the announcement and using it on their phones. Why would it matter?.

The purpose of the NFT itself appears to be proof of authenticity. The assignment of the digital certificate into your wallet is traceable to the purchase of the image and transference from an SE account, nothing more. This might be the only real use of an NFT that isn't speculative in nature. A paper trail would work just as easily, but paper certificates of authenticity could be faked, I suppose.