An original quote by Kary Oberbrunner based on his TEDx, Blockchain: The Future of Intellectual Property Protection. In the speech, he explains: "A research study was done by the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2006. They asked teachers to take their preschool class to 2 different playgrounds in a nearby busy city. The playgrounds were exactly the same except for one thing. The first playground had no fence. However, the second playground was surrounded by a fence. In the first scenario, the children remained huddled around their teacher. They didn’t explore or play. Rather, they stayed by her side afraid to venture out. But the second playground produced different results. Here the same children played on all the equipment and freely explored all the way up to the edge of the fence. I love that story. In a way we’re all still children on the playground of life. Intellectual property protection is the fence that allows us the freedom and safety to keep exploring with our ideas. It tells others, hey there’s a boundary here. You can’t just come in and take whatever you want. It gives people an incentive to invent things. Our legal system grants rights to creators since we all benefit from new ideas. Without IP protection there would be less incentive to invent medicines, products, and brands. But the height of a fence matters. Too low of a fence and no one wants to create because they’re ideas can get stolen. But too high of a fence and no one wants to create because it costs too much time and money—like patents. Similar to goldilocks and the 3 bears we need a solution that’s just right… not too high, not too low. Blockchain is the perfect height and the perfect solution. It provides 2 important qualities for IP protection: a fast layer and a first layer."