Here at BytesRights we advocate for strong digital property rights in all forms of digital assets: video games, metaverse environments, digital downloads, movie and music purchases. In order to advocate for these strong property rights, we are providing transparency in various projects by rating them against a DPRI (Digital Property Rights Index). This is inspired, in part, by work done by the Property Rights Alliance and the World Bank. A similar scoring system to these extant indices can help determine which digital projects are protecting their users’ digital property rights.

The score will be a 1 to 10 number (1 being the worst property rights and 10 being perfect property rights). The composite number will be an average of 6 subcategory scores. The subcategories are:

Control - (the owner should be able to control whether to use the asset)

Exclusivity - (all the costs and benefits from owning an asset should accrue to the owner)

Transferability - (all property rights should be transferable from one owner to another in a voluntary, open and widely trafficked exchange)

Enforcability - (property rights should be secure from seizure or encroachment by others)

Utility - (the asset should have intrinsic and/or utility value)

Progressivity - (the asset should contribute to wide progress of the metaverse, interoperability is the key attribute)

Score - (average of all 6 subcategories)

Digital projects will be scored using this methodology. Questions, comments, suggestions and advice can be delivered to bytesrights@gmail.com or at Twitter @bytesrights