Musicians Speak Out Against HitPiece for Stealing Work to Mint NFTs

2022-02-03 08:17:22

“These people have taken my entire catalog and put it up for sale as NFT’s without my knowledge or consent. I saw many other artists on their site too. Modern-day thieves. As if it wasn’t hard enough to be a musician in this era,” tweeted Jackie Venson.

HitPiece (website) has ripped off the work of artists like BTS, Britney Spears, and Brian Eno. Artists have been blasting the website all week, telling the creators to remove the images of their album covers. After the Twitter brouhaha, the HitPiece website briefly went offline. It has since returned with a tagline reading, “we started the conversation, and we’re listening.”

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/02/02/hitpiece-stealing-work-from-musicians-nfts/

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Re: Musicians Speak Out Against HitPiece for Stealing Work to Mint NFTs

Reply #1 – 2022-02-05 15:02:31

HitPiece NFT Website Goes Dark As RIAA, Major Labels Pursue Legal Action

“As you are no doubt aware, your clients, through the Hitpiece website, have been engaged in the systematic and flagrant infringement of the intellectual property rights of the Record Companies and their recording artists on a massive scale,” the letter from RIAA Senior VP Litigation, Jared Freedman reads. It is addressed to Hitpiece’s lawyer, Douglas Mark, of Mark Music and Media Law.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/02/04/hitpiece-nft-legal-action/

Re: Musicians Speak Out Against HitPiece for Stealing Work to Mint NFTs

Reply #2 – 2022-02-15 19:06:01

The NFT marketplace that sold Jack Dorsey’s original tweet for $3 million shuts down, citing rampant fraud.

The NFT marketplace Cent has halted transactions on the exchange. Founder Cameron Hejazi says people are selling NFTs of content that does not belong to them. Hejazi calls this a fundamental problem in the digital assets market, which reached $25 billion in sales in 2021 alone. Reports of scams, counterfeits, and ‘wash trading’ are all rife on NFT platforms. Cent reached the height of its fame when it sold Jack Dorsey’s first tweet as an NFT last year.

“There’s a spectrum of activity that is happening that basically shouldn’t be happening, like legally,” Hejazi told Reuters.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/02/14/major-nft-marketplace-shut-down/