Jason Rohrer, developer of the 2014 indie game The Castle Doctrine announced his plan to auction 155 of the digital paintings that he had commissioned for the game as NFTs on the OpenSea platform, without ever requesting permission from the original artists or informing them of his plan at all. In an email, Rohrer told Kotaku that he hadn’t asked for permission from the artists to sell the works as NFTs “mostly because having email conversations with 50+ people would exceed my bandwidth as a solo creator.” At least three artists asked for their work to be removed from the collection.