Here’s another IP take to ponder.
Are we cool with Stephen King publishing the Bitcoin Standard and J.K. Rowling publishing Broken Money with zero attribution or compensation to Ammous and Alden?
Maybe those authors make the work more accessible to the masses and are simply better writers.
Blockchain registration and private agreements would solve this problem. It also might be worth looking into common law copyright and common law trademarks.
Harry Potter and The Timechain 🤭
The credibility cost to the reputations of Rowling & King would be prohibitive, and the popular backlash against "stolen ideas" (if not legally enforcable) would drive great attention to the source authors.
Information is non-rivalrous
What does that mean?
Not sure how, but someone with more insight could probably figure out a way to timestamp work and therefore at least date it. Anyone who's interested could then search who did it first. Maybe IP is simply unnatural and trying to enforce it is like telling water to flow upwards.
