Owning the internet

Published June 4, 2021 3:00am ET



There’s a new way to make money on the internet: You can sell your social media posts, digital pictures, and videos as an original piece of art — as long as people are willing to pay money for it, that is.

Here’s an example: Let’s say you want to take your first-ever Facebook post and enter it into an online auction and sell it off to someone else. That Facebook post would still be widely accessible on the internet, and it would still appear on your profile. But if someone else buys it, it’s technically theirs.

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