Legal
Originality and AI.
Every artist on The Walls agrees to this before they list anything.
Last updated 6 October 2026.
Zero tolerance for copied work.
Only list work you made yourself, or work you hold every right to sell. Copying, copyminting and any other use of someone else's work without permission is never allowed. Every work is checked closely, and an artist found submitting copied work is removed from The Walls.
What counts as copying
- Someone else's artwork or photograph, in whole or in part, without their written permission.
- Traced, filtered, recolored, upscaled, cropped or lightly edited versions of someone else's work.
- Copyminting: minting, listing or selling someone else's work, or an NFT of it, as if it were yours.
- Characters, logos, brands or trademarks you do not own, including fan art of them.
- A real person's likeness without their permission.
- AI images made to imitate a living artist's specific work, or made from their work as an input.
How every work is checked
- A person reviews every work before it goes on sale.
- Each image is fingerprinted and compared with every work on The Walls and every work ever taken down.
- A reverse image search looks for the picture elsewhere on the web, and an AI model looks for problems.
- We read the file's own metadata for AI tags and Content Credentials, and compare them with what you declared.
- Works on sale are searched again from time to time, and anyone can report a work.
Keep your source files, sketches, work in progress and any permissions you rely on. We may ask you for them.
AI is allowed, and must always be declared
You can list work made with AI tools, as long as the result is yours to sell. When you submit a work you tell us how AI was used: not at all, AI-assisted (for example generative fill, upscaling or AI references) or AI-generated (an AI model made most of the image). Buyers see the label on the work.
Hiding AI is a breach of your agreement. That includes declaring no AI when it was used and removing the AI tags or Content Credentials from a file. When a file's metadata says it was made with AI and you declared otherwise, a person looks at it before anything else happens.
What happens when work is copied
- The work comes down at once, and its unprinted orders are held.
- Earnings from its sales are reversed or held while it is looked into.
- Each work taken down for copyright or trademark infringement is a strike. Repeated strikes suspend the account.
- Deliberate copying or copyminting means removal from The Walls: every listing, license and residency ends.
- We may pass your details to the rights holder or a court when the law requires it.
You get a statement of reasons for every decision, and you can appeal it for six months. See copyright and takedowns for how notices and counter-notices work.