Is copyright expiration the next goldmine for NFTs?

Most people think of digital art when it comes to NFTs, but in the future, rights to Expiring author could be preserved, refreshed, and reused using a non-fungible token technology.

Although non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are most commonly known as digital art, they exist in many other forms and are much more than art.

In the creative industry, NFTs have been used by musicians such as Kings of Leon to release their latest album. In the sports industry, NFTs are created to record highlights of major sporting events such as the NBA. In the consumer products industry, Nike, Gucci and many others sell their digital branded products in the form of NFTs. Many other real applications of NFTs have yet to be explored, and one of them is the digital publishing industry.

The revolutionary implications of publishing and promoting books with NFT have already been widely discussed by many people. For example, the Independent Authors Alliance helps independent authors promote their latest books using NFTs. Other related items for the fan club, such as character cards, are also turned into NFTs. Tezos Farmation, a project built on the Tezos network, even takes the full text of George Orwell's Animal Farm book and cuts it into 10,000 pieces to use as titles for NFTs.

NFTs created from existing books are normally copyrighted. However, in the case of Tezos Farmation, the copyright had already expired. The text of the book can be used free of charge by any party. This raises a very interesting question: how can we