Your art stays yours

Your original file

When you list a work, you upload the original file. R47 stores that file in full quality, exactly as you sent it. The pages of the site show smaller copies so they load quickly; the original is kept whole, and it is the file a buyer receives. Listing a work gives R47 the right to display and deliver it — nothing more. The copyright stays with you.

Your token, your wallet

Each work is minted as a token (ERC-721 on Base) at its first sale, and sales are paid to your own wallet — ETH, USDC or USDT, chosen by you. R47 never holds your keys, and collectors hold their works in their own wallets. A work sold on R47 does not live on R47’s servers; it lives in the owner’s wallet, on the chain, where it stays whatever happens to this site.

Export, at any time

You can export your works and their details whenever you like, without asking and without a fee. In this demonstration the export lives in the artist studio — the “Export my works” button downloads a file with your profile and every work you have listed in the demo, including titles, prices, editions and process labels. At launch, the same export will cover your original files and your full sales and provenance records.

If R47 ever closes

We would rather write this down now than improvise later. If R47 were ever to close, our plan is: works already sold are unaffected — they sit in their owners’ wallets, not with us. Artists would be able to download their original files and records during a wind-down period before the site goes dark, and we would say so plainly, in good time, on this page and by email. We are not promising a service we cannot pay for: no perpetual archive, no guaranteed buy-back, no custodian of last resort. What we are promising is the honest version — your files back, your records exported, and no surprises.

This page is a draft, pending legal review. It describes how R47 is being built; the binding terms will be published before launch.