Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann has put up for sale a collection of NFTs based on video footage shot inside the interiors of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. The museum said the arrangement violated the agreement.
The clip is for the song “Beloved City” that Lindemann filmed in May. He has now unveiled коллекцию NFTill, the top lot of which is valued at €100,000. The owner will also have the right to dine with the musician in Moscow.
The total value of the five tokens put up for sale exceeds €1.2 million.
However, the museum did not welcome the initiative. Hermitage representatives said that the use of images of items from the collection and interiors of the museum in the token collection labeled Hermitage Edition, “was not and could not be approved by the museum”.
They cited the contract signed by Lindemann, in which the use of Hermitage images and all prepared materials is allowed exclusively in a music video.
“The warning about violating the museum’s licensing policy, sent to Lindemann at the announcement stage of his NFTill project, went unanswered — and the illegal tokens were uploaded to the marketplace,” the press service added.
The Rammstein frontman himself or his representatives have not yet commented.
ForkLog will continue to monitor the developments.
In July, the Hermitage and the Binance NFT marketplace announced tokenised artworks from the museum’s collection.
The Hermitage plans to stage an art exhibition of non-fungible tokens by the end of 2021.
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