I just finished reading Chris Dixon's book, Read Write Own. He makes a case for digital scarcity and ownership layered atop digital abundance.

Ultimately, ownership first entails Authorship. Somebody authors a piece of work, and sometimes authors another thing to author a piece of work. But ultimately, as data is used for AI, the notion of property rights and terms can be packaged with a given piece of content.

So, there will be the basic indicators of Authorship, like an avatar and user handle or name.

So, to start, we can think about a conventional way to indicate ownership for a digital object.

From a user perspective

• Scan to sign
• Scan to access
• Scan to record

From a more detailed technical interface perspective

• Scan → Image Capture → isQRCode (no) → Image Processing
• Scan → Image Capture → isQRCode (yes) → Data Processing