Before Jan 2nd, OpenSea will transfer ownership of the Operator Filter Registry to a multi-sig controlled by a collective incl. @ourzora@manifoldxyz@foundation@superrare@niftygateway & @opensea.
Meet the Creator Ownership Research Institute (CORI) https://corinstitute.co
It doesn't matter if 1 organization controls the OperatorFilter, or a committee of 10. It is censorship that violates Artistic Soverignty.
The only entity that should have any say on how an Artist's Contract operates is the Artist. twitter.com/opensea/status…
how is this anti-competitive? This ensures that no single entity has a monopoly on deciding which marketplaces do / don't get included in the blacklist. If you enforce royalties, the council takes you off the blacklist. Curious if enforcing royalties gets them added to multi-sig
16/ Additionally, we’ve heard compelling pushback from creators on the lack of an alternative mechanism for earning creator fees on OpenSea outside of leveraging our enforcement tool.