In a major change for the popular NFT project, Kevin Rose, founder of Moonbirds, announced on Twitter that both Moonbirds and Oddities will move to a CC0 license.
CC0, otherwise known as Creative Commons, simply means “no rights reserved” on intellectual property. It’s a form of copyright that allows creators to waive legal interest in their work and move it, as far as possible, into the public domain. This means that anyone can now use Moonbirds NFT art freely without any copyright restrictions.
“In this new future,” Rose said in the tweet, “true ownership is dictated by what is recorded on-chain, the way it should be, not by a record housed by a government or corporate entity.”
Rose also announced the upcoming formation of the Moonbirds DAO, which will exist primarily to oversee the general licensing of the Moonbirds and Oddities trademarks and prevent scams, hate speech, and violence within the community.
Community members can expect to see changes to the project’s terms of service and website in the coming days. The Moonbirds team will also host a Q&A session on August 5 at Moonbirds Parliament Twitter Spaces.