Does nostr have any inherent intellectual property or licensing assumptions for the published content?
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Not your keys. Not your stuff.
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My presumption is my events posted are mine. My keys are my proof. Any client worth its salt won't try to undermine that ownership.
The signing part is obvious, but posting to public relays is basically shouting in a public forum. You can always claim your content, but others can claim it as well. I am wondering if we all assume similar things or do we differ in our expectations? For instance, copying content is 0 cost. We might agree that impersonation is unwelcome and discouraged or not. Do users, clients or relays care? If we have a licence tag on a post, does it mean anything in practice?
Too true on the copy and stealing part. That's the whole internet though. I'd presume it mimics the real world, in that your copyright ownerships are only relevant to the extent that you can enforce it legally and/or shame the thief. That part is a puzzle that's 1000's of years old. Get philosophical pretty quickly.
This has been discussed off nostr in context if GitCitadel since cryptographically signing stuff can and should put an end to nearly all IP BS.
I am exceedingly against all IP laws. They only help those who can afford lawyers.
But to your query, no. And I'm not sure their can be, though I can see some interesting possibilities for the future if nostr becomes ubiquitous enough that governments use it, in that if you want X protection or recognition of Y idea, you must publish something on Z relay.
I’m not exactly looking for an IP protection, but I think it ties into content publishing rails. I get that kind1s are exactly opposite to ‘other things’, in the sense that you can be paid here and almost nowhere else, just for saying something out loud. But content monetizing is so reliant on some central authority ’protecting your rights’ people don’t even see the water they are in and how there’s dry land here. There isn’t yet a nostr business model for authors, beyond v4v which is some nebulous thing that draws people into influencer mindset again.
I publish much of my content on my own website and use BIPCOT No Gov license https://bipcot.org/
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