# Publish IP
Once you’ve finished making art or music and your content is ready to deploy. You can publish your work with a smart contract that helps provide transparency to collectors or other end users. Once published, your collection will be accessible on the creator dashboard.
You can publish your IP & submit the NFT smart contract for approval on Fractal Visions to be listed.
**The case for NFT-specific licenses**
Many people buy NFTs to own an avatar, an artwork, or any number of other creative outputs — but the reality is they usually can’t be sure of what they’re getting. When you buy an NFT today, you’re usually purchasing a tokenID (stored on a blockchain), along with metadata that “points” or refers to some other content file (typically stored off-chain, though there are examples of fully on-chain artwork). This fact causes confusion regarding rights of NFT buyers in the vast majority of cases.
US copyright laws do not automatically grant buyers of artwork (both traditional and digital works) the right to reproduce, adapt, or even publicly display the artwork. Without a license or assignment of the copyright from the NFT creator, the buyer cannot exercise any of the rights under copyright (such as reproduction, adaptation, and public display) except through copyright exceptions such as “fair use” which are narrow and uncertain.
Licenses allow creators to grant holders additional rights, but to date, licenses aren’t applied consistently across projects. Many projects launch without licenses, or with custom licenses that create more ambiguity than they resolve. Licenses (and other documentation of what buyers are legally allowed to do with their NFTs) are often kept off-chain, where they could be changed in ways holders don’t expect.
These issues are compounded by the fact that copyrights are notoriously difficult to transfer. Even a savvy buyer has no way to inspect an infinite bundle of rights and know which ones a previous owner may have already given away.
Standardized NFT-specific licenses should ideally be tracked and enforced on the blockchain to provide more certainty for users. Better licensing frameworks have the potential to make high quality licenses more readily available, clear up ambiguity around ownership, and save creators some of the burden (and expense) of creating their own licensing regimes. ( [a16z Source Article](https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/introducing-nft-licenses/) )
Choose from 7 EVM networks to deploy your IP License Smart Contracts for a new project.
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Claim your "IP Creator" role from guild for access to the discord. This is the best place for tech support during launch. Make sure to submit your contract for listing after deployment.
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