You do not need a complete understanding of IP to make meaningful work. As an artist, it is reasonable to set a limit, protect what you can, and keep your focus on expression. Provenance still matters because it creates a visible trail around authorship, ownership, and what is official when questions or disputes arise. Smart contracts and related tools can provide temporary commercial protection by helping record origin, manage access, preserve context, and create clearer boundaries around a work, even if they cannot stop copying outright. BatCat Attacks! stories use x402 because agents with wallets can already discover, pay for, and generate from available work. x402 creates a machine-readable paid access path, clearer signals around what is official, and a cleaner hand-off of access management in a machine-native environment. The core idea is simple: artists can choose their limit, hand off some of the management burden to the tools available now, and keep creating.