Part 4
The Soiree - Quotations | OpenSea
And there it is.
Well, one of the tests. I am NOT promoting sale here on read.cash (maybe later), it is even set to a private sale. But please do visit the link, to see the artwork.
SVG, IPFS, Copyright, quality of peers, registration, artist's commission, sales.
SVG problems:
You can put my SVG file as a target in your website's <img/> and it will probably work. BUT most sites like this one do not recognize SVG as an allowed type for upload. It becomes hard to promote it. I could figure out how to get it into an animated gif, but that rather spoils the point of svg. Solution: to show it to you, I put the link to opensea, which accepts svg image files.
Another issue with showing SVG is the animation. Originally these were downloaded in encrypted chunks, each chunk decrypted and displayed, as seen in part 1 of this series. To get the cursive to draw itself sans javascript, the animation got built in to the <path/>s. Each would wait for the prior to finish, then draw itself. BUT that did not work on the uploaded site! I suspect the Events signals were not allowed. So in version three, the timing is all internal to the SVG, no events needed.
IPFS Inter-Planetary File System:
Where does my digital asset's payload reside? I -think- opensea puts it on IPFS. Maybe not. But -I- can, so here it is:
I do not know yet if that is an acceptable way to get the file to its intended owner. It looks like it works here. Which also seems to help with the SVG viewing problems.
How did I do that? Go to IPFS Powers the Distributed Web and installed the node, then uploaded my file to it. It seems to work, no problem.
Why to do that? Well, in the targeted NFT, I want to present the owner with the full image, but I do not want to post that image in the marketplace. Having it on IPFS relieves me and the owner of the obligation of hosting the image myself, and lets me place the link to the ipfs file into 'unlockable content' in the NFT. Good.
Copyright problems:
Strictly speaking, this quotation from Dorothy Parker is still under copyright protection. At least, in the United States, where I reside. No one is going to come after me for making a drawing of the words, I am sure, unless it suddenly starts making money. Maybe I can exclude US from sales?? Establish a front company off-shore?
Quality of peers problem:
My artist friend was horrified by the images on the front page of the NFT sales site. He felt this would make it hard to sell his dealer on sponsoring his NFT, if it must mingle with the low effort works. There ARE some top tier art offerings through the site, though, notably a Bansky gimmic. And private sales can avoid the cruft. In a way, not having the imprimatur of opensea is an advantage, keeps his art out of the cruft.
Artist's commission:
The site offers an artist's commission on all sales. This is good. However, it seems to be implemented by their sales logic, and not baked in to the NFT contract. So selling outside the site may interfere with maintaining that fee.
Sales:
And finally, there is still a pretty high activation energy to getting set up with a crypto wallet. I do not know if these guys even have wallets!!
