About two months after being acquired by NFT heavyweight Yuga Labs, Moonbirds has announced a U-turn. The NFT series will now strengthen the rights of holders when commercializing individual Moonbirds, the series announced on the X platform.
"From today, Moonbirds will join Mythics as a series with commercial rights," the post reads. "If you made things in the CC0 era, that's cool. But from now on, you need to own a Moonbird to continue to do so." In 2022, Moonbirds shocked some holders when it suddenly changed its copyright model. At the time, Moonbirds adopted the Creative Commons CC0 copyright code, meaning that the artwork became part of the public domain and could be freely commercialized without the owner's consent. Meanwhile, Moonbirds was acquired in February by Yuga Labs, the NFT powerhouse that created Bored Ape Yacht Club and owns the copyright to CryptoPunks.