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2406, 2015
Towards An Ownership Layer for the Internet
One long-standing drawback to the Internet is the hidden âartist penalty.â The very strengths of the Internet make it difficult for creators of digital content to be fairly compensated for their work. This paper describes the implementation and proposes a fix that makes it easy to control oneâs intellectual property by constituting a new âownership layerâ on top of the existing Internet.