Opentimestamps could be a complementary tool to achieve this.
Pattern would be:
  • You author the "work", whatever that is.
  • You sign it.
  • You use opentimestamps to prove the existence of the signature at some point in time.
  • You release the "work" out there.
Since you have that proof, and nobody else can provide one earlier than yours, you kind of have a case for having laid your eyes on the "work" before anyone else, which is a strong argument in demonstrating authoring.
From what I've read, intellectual property protection is one of the strong use cases in trad-legal areas for Opentimestamps.
401 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Sep
Yep 100%.
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