# kaal:claim:3782198-015

**Claim.** If any single person could own the copyright to software that a decentralized organization uses, that person would hold de facto power over the organization, re establishing hierarchies of power inside it.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies where proprietary code is embedded in a decentralized organization's stack

**Source quote.**

> If one person could own the copyright to some of the software a decentralized organization uses, then they would have de facto power over the organization, again establishing hierarchies of power within the organization.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Contemporary Decentralization* (2021), Open source culture, page 11

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `e7e1378e3eed06cace6534e7792a7307d607d18bc6beb4ac45896476280728e4` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Contemporary%20Decentralization.pdf

**Failure mode.** proprietary-code-recentralization  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** open-source-and-code, institutional-design, decentralization

**Keywords.** copyright, open-source, hierarchy, decentralized-organizations, power

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-025

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