> the person who has put in the work then has some rights to decide how that information is accessed and re-used You do, but you give up those rights when you

> the person who has put in the work then has some rights to decide how that information is accessed and re-used You do, but you give up those rights when you make the work public. You think an author has any control over who their book gets lent to once somebody buys a copy? You think they get a share of profits when a CEO reads their book and they make a better decision? Of course not. What you're asking for is unreasonable. It's not workable. Knowledge can't be owned. Once you put it out there, it's out there. We have copyright and patent protections in specific circumstances, but that's all. You don't own facts, no matter how much hard work and research they took to figure out.