Roughly two months after being acquired by NFT heavyweight Yuga Labs, Moonbirds has announced an about-face.

The NFT collection will now enforce holders' rights when it comes to the commercialization of individual Moonbirds, the collection posted to X.

"Starting today, Moonbirds will join Mythics as a collection with commercial rights," according to the post. "If you’ve made stuff during the CC0 era, cool. But from now on, you’ll need to own a Moonbird to keep doing so."

In 2022, Moonbirds shocked some holders when it abruptly changed its copyright model. Back then, Moonbirds adopted the Creative Commons CC0 copyright code, which meant the art became part of the public domain and could freely commercialized without the owner’s consent. The move to switch back to previous business …