Austin Powers supporting actor Seth Green has sparked a debate over who owns the commercial rights to use a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT, after his Apes were stolen and sold to another party Green tweeted on May 18 that four of his nonfungible tokens (NFT) including BAYC #8398, Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) #9964 and #19182, and Doodle #7546 were stolen from him after he visited a phishing site. Green, the creator of Robot Chicken and co-star on Family Guy, noted that someone with the pseudonym DarkWing84 had already bought the BAYC NFT. Now, legal experts and community members are weighing in about the implications of theft on BAYC intellectual property (IP) rights. Well frens it happened to me. Got phished and had 4NFT stolen. @BoredApeYC @opensea @doodles @yugalabs please don’t buy or trade ...
Seth Green fell for a phishing scam earlier this month, losing four NFTs including Fred Simian, an image from the Bored Ape Yacht Club series. The actor is desperately trying to get it back, not just because it was subsequently sold for over $200,000, but because he had cast dear old Fred in his new sitcom Whitehorse Tavern. Since someone else has the ape, Green no longer owns its commercial rights, and the series cannot move forward. Via Buzzfeed News and Motherboard, the theft took place on May 8th after Green unknowingly visited a phishing site. Besides the Bored Ape, he also lost two NFTs from the Mutant Apes series as well as a Doodle. As for Fred, this cigarette-smoking, skeleton-T wearing image was transferred to a virtual wallet called C8A090, which then sold the simian to an entit...