The HIVE Delegation Debacle
What, you thought I was done?! Oh no! This HIVE fiasco is so full of blunders that I could not possibly list them all in one post. And if you think this is about HIVE-bashing, you'd be mistaken. I'm listing all of these points so that I, and maybe others, can have a historical reference point to considered should another Hardfork of the Steem blockchain into another chain come to the surface. Which hopefully it won't, because this is not a normal blockchain where you are simply creating another open-ledger to manage funds. The Steem blockchain is unique in that it holds intellectual property in the form of text, and other digital assets like collectibles that should not be copied. But that's for another post.
The other day, I wrote the following words in HIVE Hubris: Join Us Whether You Like It or Not:
The HIVE lackeys will simply say, "Hey, if you don't want your votes active on the HIVE blockchain, just go login and deactivate them." In other words, whether you agree with what is happening or not, we'll compel you to get involved, otherwise, we'll just exploit everything that you have created on the Steem blockchain.
Did you have a say in your Witness Votes for HIVE? No! Did you have a say in your identity being copied? No! Did you have a say in freezing accounts? No! Did you have a say in your intellectual property being copied? No! Did you have a say in the copying of your upvotes? No! Did you have say in your digital collectibles being copied? No! Did you have a say in whether your delegations should remain? No!
So if you have delegated Steem Power to someone you no longer support, that account still has HIVE Power - thanks to you - and will forever remain with that person, unless, of course, you join the Movement... whether you like it or not!
Some 300 million Hive token are generated because "few" thought it is too much to handle "65 million" bought tokens.
Regarding your question, I am wondering what exact copyright we hold on it, Does it belonged to steem after our publication or it still belonged to us.
It belongs to you. No-one owns the blockchain, it's merely an indelible log of what you choose to put on it. It records the very fact and time that you published it, so would be proof of your intellectual ownership if anyone tries to steal it at a future point.
Exactly, however, when an Author publishes copy-written material, permission has to be sought to copy or store it. Where the Author decides to publish it is where the permission is granted. If I publish a book with Random House, and I then find out that Simon & Schuster has copied everything from Random House's catalog without my permission, that is illegal.
Copy-written material belongs to the Author, not the blockchain. But it is the Author who gives permission to those who wish to copy it or store copies of it, and the HIVE blockchain did not seek nor get that permission.