XCOPY (artist)

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XCOPY is an anonymous, London-based^[1] digital artist active in the field of NFT art.^[2]

Xcopy first emerged as an artist on the social media platform Tumblr in August 2010. He would subsequently post more than a thousand individual works there, uploading every month (other than August 2014^[3]) for more than a decade.^[4]

Right-Click and Save As Guy is one of XCOPY's most famous artworks.^[1] The title refers to the common criticism of NFTs associated with artworks that anybody can save a copy from the web by right-clicking the image.^[5]

The NFT associated with the piece last sold for approximately $7,000,000^[1] on 9 December 2021, making it one of the highest selling NFTs.^[6]

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  All Time High in the City (2018).
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  A Coin for the Ferryman (2018). The associated NFT sold for $6 million USD. ^[7]
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  Cracked (2018)
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  Last Selfie (2019)
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  Max Pain (2022), released as an open edition ^[8] on NiftyGateway in 2022. 7394 associated NFTs sold in the 10 minute mint window for a total sale price of nearly $23 million USD.^[9]
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  Some Asshole. The associated NFT sold for $3.8M USD^[10]

On August 1, 2022,^{[failed verification]} Xcopy released his work under a Creative Commons CC-zero licence,^[11] relinquishing copyrights to his works which were not collaborations or derivative content, and dedicating those rights to the public domain. CC0 licensing has been used to increased artwork visibility and usage.^[12]

• Digital artists
• NFT's
• GIF art

• Official website