But to what extent? If I quote you, is that ok? But what if you copyrighted that quote? If I made a documentary about copyrighted art, then is that fair use or am I not allowed to show art in my movie if it was copyrighted, that is without written consent? I can ask questions all day about the grey areas.

Yes, I would favor cryptocurrency systems that can help like you said.

I favor ownership rights of physical items. However, can you really own a picture of an item? For example, I own my car. If you take a photograph of my car with your camera, can I legally take that photo from you? Now, maybe if you were on my private land, I could build a case on your trespassing on my land, my property. I'm not even too sure what I would prefer the judge to do in a case like that.

But I would compare digital data to physical photographs. In some ways, data is like a picture. Specifically, it is true, if you want to be technical, that data is physical in that it is electricity that can be stored on a computer, a hard drive, a server. So, a picture can be saved on a file on my computer. That file may be on Facebook servers. Wait, scratch that. Facebook is a bad example maybe. But you get my point that a file can be saved all over the place. Search engines may be saving those files in the cache, the RAM, all over. If your computer has a copyrighted file in temporary storage, like in the RAM, cache, in the HDD, or wherever, is that a violation of copyright?

I would argue that all of the Internet is like a public square, a town square, because it's a big mess. There is so much Internet traffic of data packages being exchanged back and forth. There is also the violation of the fourth amendment. Facebook continues to collect data from people who delete their Facebook and from people who are not even on Facebook via Face Recognition Software which is also used in China for stopping people from travel if the government does not like them. Again, I know the Facebook topic is a big topic. But I'm just trying to say that privacy is already being violated by Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc. So many things are happening. So many things that we are not aware of yet.

Coincidence

If I come up with the same idea that you do at the same time and we both go to copyright that idea independently, who gets the copyright? If you copyright and I don't, should I go to jail or can I plead that I didn't know that it was copyrighted? Can slogans and mottos be copyrighted? I like to say "With Oatmeal in my Bowl, is Jesus in your Soul?" I've been writing and saying that since 2004 but I didn't copyright it. So, if somebody goes to copyright it in 2019, that is fifteen years later, will I have to pay a fine for using something that was copyrighted until fifteen years into the future? I can seriously ask these types of questions all day.

Cryptocurrencies

But I agree with what you said about cryptocurrencies in helping with some of this or all of these types of things. I am against taxes. I would rather the government have fundraisers to raise support.