One important component of successful Authoright world is the ability of a distributor to indicate he is supporting the author.
Well, what do you know! The great people at QuestionCopyright.org are working on this exact concept. Their Creator-Endorsed Mark is an attempt to implement the way for a publisher to show his support for the author of a work in a recognizable, and, what’s important, legally-binding way, by using a trademark law.
The idea looks very promising. Something like that was proposed on dmca_discuss list long ago–kind of individual acknowledgment that a distributor or a publisher supports the author while an open license wouldn’t require such a support. I used the same idea when tried to assemble the Authoright License (the Addendum in the book on this site), but “Creator-Endorsed” mark seems to be more useful, working for the general idea of Authoright, which, in my view, is ideal correspondence of the license to the nature of culture. If we ever reach or just near this stage in legislature the effect on culture and civilization will be enormous.