86,000 Plagiarized NFTs
86 thousand times people have stolen my art and listed them on @opensea and they even had the gall to make a collection like a giant middle finger to my IP rights. Wtf?#nft #arttheft #opensea #infringement #nftcommunity pic.twitter.com/LY5Jxb2N2r
— Aja Trier (@AjaArt) January 5, 2022
Aja Trier is a Texas based artist who specializes in colorful and fantastical adaptations of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” typically featuring cats and dogs. In January 2022, Trier claimed on Twitter that her art was stolen and licensed on OpenSea (one of the most popular NFT hubs) nearly 86,000 times. Trier filed a DMCA report and further tweeted that they expected bots were responsible. While OpenSea was able to remove the collection of Trier’s stolen work, later that month Trier revealed that someone was using her identity to sell NFTs of her own work.
