Digital Art Fraud in India: NFT Misappropriation, AI Scraping, Style Mimicry and Print-on-Demand Theft

Introduction : Digital art has expanded the creative economy by allowing artists to produce, publish and monetise work without traditional galleries or physical intermediaries. The same features that make digital art accessible also make it vulnerable to rapid copying. A work can be downloaded, altered, uploaded to a marketplace, used to train an artificial-intelligence system or printed on commercial products within minutes. Four forms of misuse are particularly significant in India:...