Some artists right at the beginning liked the idea that an NFT contract could let them keep some fraction of the rights. That way, if the work later sold for a large sum, they could earn some money off of it.

But they were quickly disillusioned. The space instantly filled with crap art sold by scammers. Developers, of course, knew that would happen, but artists don't always have that same instinct for the way the worst possible use of a technology will overwhelm all others.

> Some artists right at the beginning liked the idea that an NFT contract could let them keep some fraction of the rights.

NFTs never provided a single thing that a normal paper contract couldn't.

They provided neither enhanced practical protections vs copying nor any enhanced intellectual property legal protections.

Any artists who thought NFTs accomplished anything at all other than a brief wave of hype were misinformed.