ownership

Why we have to ask these artists for works that have an NFT related to them is that from, I guess, a legal perspective, the collector technically only owns the token, only has ownership of the token.

Regina Harsanyi, Preserving Digital Art: Regina Harsanyi, Jon Ippolito

I think that if I would like to make money off of an artwork, then I associate a token with it. And it is a very convenient way of transferring ownership to somebody who would like to pay me good money for it.

Mitchell F Chan, Protocol Art & Blockchain Formalism