Terms of Sale & Existence

Article I: What You're Getting Into

By purchasing a Mad Branch work, you are acquiring:

• A physical sculpture made from wood that someone else threw away, shaped by hands and tools and stubbornness
• A 3D digital model that is mathematically the same object but also completely not
• An NFT that proves you own both, to whatever extent proving things matters anymore
• Access to a small archive of images, sounds, and words about the piece, hidden behind a digital gate that only opens for you

This is a package deal. These things are married. See Article IV.

Article II: What You Can Do With It (Standard Package)

You may:

• Display the sculpture in your home, your office, your bunker, your yacht
• Show the 3D model to friends, enemies, and indifferent parties
• Print the model for your own shelf, desk, or altar
• Stare at it
• Touch it (gently)
• Think about what it means

You may not:

• Sell prints, reproductions, or derivatives of the model
• License the model to anyone for any purpose
• Claim you made it
• Use it in a commercial product, advertisement, or fever dream you plan to monetize
• Train an AI on it (the irony would be too much)

This is personal. Keep it that way.

Article III: What You Can Do With It (Full Rights Package)

If you paid the big number, congratulations. You may:

• Do whatever you want with the 3D model
• Sell prints, license it, build an empire
• Put it on a t-shirt, a mug, a satellite

You still may not:

• Claim you made it
• Pretend the artist doesn't exist
• Be weird about it

The physical sculpture remains a sculpture. The model is now yours to exploit. May it bring you fortune or at least mild satisfaction.

Article IV: The Marriage Clause

The physical sculpture and the NFT are bound together in unholy matrimony. They cannot be separated.

If you sell the sculpture, you must transfer the NFT.
If you sell the NFT, you must transfer the sculpture.

Violating this clause means:

• You have broken the provenance
• Neither half is whole anymore
• You have created an ontological problem that will follow you

This is not enforced by code. It is enforced by the quiet weight of knowing you did something wrong.

Article V: What the NFT Is and Isn't

The NFT is a certificate of authenticity. A key to gated content. A proof that you and this object have a relationship recognized by the blockchain.

The NFT is not:

• The sculpture
• The model
• A promise of future value
• A ticket to anywhere
• Financial advice

If the blockchain disappears, you still have the sculpture. If the sculpture burns, you still have the NFT. Both of these situations would be sad.

Article VI: Shipping & Reality

The sculpture will be packed carefully and shipped to you. Once it leaves my hands, it enters the chaos of transit. I will do my best. The universe makes no guarantees.

If it arrives damaged, contact me. We'll figure it out like humans.

Article VII: No Refunds on Existence

All sales are final. You are buying an object that exists in multiple forms simultaneously. There is no undo button for that.

Article VIII: Amendments

I reserve the right to update these terms. If I do, it won't affect pieces you've already purchased. That deal is done. We shook hands, digitally or otherwise.

Article IX: The Final Word

By completing your purchase, you agree to these terms and acknowledge that you are now the steward of something that was once a tree, then trash, then art, then data, then yours.

Take care of it.

Questions? madbranch@madbranch.studio