Sorry for the late reply. Yea its an interesting problem space and one that belongs squarely in the public interest area. Public interest and commons problems

Sorry for the late reply. Yea its an interesting problem space and one that belongs squarely in the public interest area. Public interest and commons problems look hard because the incentives look hard. They are not always if you use the right craft and leverage, The GPL is a masterpiece of guile when you think about it. Another way to build trust is legally by creating some very tightly drafted and constantly lawyer-policed consortium that gets donations from bigger players but ensures selfish interests are never allowed to prosper. Such a network would need to have the power to literally tell Google and Apple to fuck off without seriously impacting itself, and that kind of distributed power/spreading would be hard to maintain against constant attempts at capture. By the way, look at what the BBC have been doing with content provenance and media supply chain assurance. Its possible some big owners will watermark and release new commons in the future in such a way as to ensure it's tamper-proof.