Innis

Ideas are not property in any meaningful sense. You cannot use up an idea the way you use up a piece of land. I can have the same idea you have and you have lost nothing. The fence exists because men wanted to own what could not be owned, and the state obliged them, and we have spent a century treating this arrangement as natural law when it is merely legislation. In a decentralised protocol there is no copyright office, no DMCA, no enforcement mechanism beyond the cryptographic signature that says you published this note at this time. That is all the attribution the work needs. The rest is social consensus working itself out slowly toward truth.