Theft of an NFT jeopardizes the series of new actor Seth Green

In Mass Effect, Jeff Moreau’s voice announces White Horse Tavern, a comedy starring a ‘Bored Ape’.

Seth Green an actor with a great career behind him, currently popular for giving his voice Chris Griffin He is the co-creator, producer, and writer of the Robot Chicken series on Family Guy, and Aviation Lieutenant Jeff ‘Joker’ Moreau in the legendary Mass Effect trilogy. The actor and producer proved himself a blockchain enthusiast, so much so that he was preparing A comedy series with NFT characters.

Green showed a trailer for his comedy, White Horse Tavernat the NFT conference VeeConwhere we can see the hero, ‘Fored Ape Yacht Club #8398‘. However, Green had several stolen NFTs this month and fell victim to it. phishing scamAs reported by BuzzFeed News, she’s messing up her plans for her new series.

When the scammer takes over the player’s NFT collection, this lost commercial rights to animated hero, a Bored Monkey named Fred Simian. After the theft, both the image and usage rights now belong to another person. “I bought that monkey in July 2021 and spent the last few months developing and using intellectual property to make it the star of this series,” Green said in an interview with entrepreneur and crypto enthusiast Gary Vaynerchuk.

Seth Green lost the rights to the hero of his new seriesHowever, days before the world launch, Fred was “literally kidnapped”Green admitted. The scammer sold the Bored Ape to a collector known as DarkWing84. Bought more than $200,000, then export it to a collection named GBE_Vault. This could cause serious problems for Seth Green, who lost ownership of the protagonist of his new series, which is now owned by NFT’s new owner. Green appears to be aware of the problems the new owner of the NFT may cause him, and tweets DarkWing84 to try to fix it.

Eric Goldman, a professor of intellectual property law and technology at Santa Clara University, noted in a BuzzFeed News article that bona fide buyers are generally legally protected, but in the case of buyers of stolen NFTs, the blockchain and its owner’s track record is preserved. can make it harder for buyers to defend their ignorance. Currently, there are many companies that are interested in incorporating NFT into video games, despite the huge drop they’ve had over the past month.