There's something here: https://www.reddit.com/r/oasisnetwork/comments/1m5bu1y/what_... Basically, provide incentives and a framework for publishing great works via blockchain that would otherwise be ignored, stolen, shelved or suppressed.
Why was it so expensive to get a "website up and running?"
Why were there so many "technical co-founder wanted" ads to get to "first prototype" and seed stage?
I am not sure why you think it’s expensive to get a website up and running.
Most blockchains are public, static in their blocks and ever-present. People say it's a solution looking for a problem: well there's a massive problem it solves. Using it as a decentralized library of intelligence and innovation, and like a forest, there's that ever-present reach for sunlight - ie human attention and whoever gets it, gets rewarded. Like with a forest and life. As someone else said it's just a permissionless P2P network but it can be applied differently.
See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44603344
Imagine if the Library of Alexandria used one, it'd still be standing today, right, in cyberspace?
Could you propose a system where patents could be granted favoring first claims rather than bending to legal muscle? Patents could be sold later for additional monetization if needed. So if you purchased some good, it would be great to see royalties flow back to the assigned inventors. The IP backstory is the key.