Independent Author Record, Legal Provenance Statement, and Rights Reservation

This technical note preserves the independent author record, legal provenance, and rights reservation for the Alla kan blomstra / Everyone Can Flourish materials initiated and authored by Alyssa Bittner-Gibbs in 2025. The note records that the first Swedish white paper version existed by 13 January 2025, before the author’s next Government of Åland appointment began on 16 January 2025, and that later versions and related materials were shared into institutional, project, and publication contexts, including the UN-Habitat-linked Everyone Can Flourish process. It documents the author’s position that the protected material includes authored text, structure, selection, arrangement, metaphorical and pedagogical framing, the flower/root/soil/weather model, the six-root value structure, English translation and adaptation work, governance and philosophical background materials, implementation logic, and derivative continuity connected to the author’s works. This record does not claim institutional representation, endorsement, ownership, or authorization. That is precisely the point. An author does not need to represent an institution in order to preserve the public record of her own authorship, provenance, citation priority, version history, moral rights, and rights notice. The note also records later removal, de-linking, or disassociation requests concerning the public author record. Those requests do not alter the legal status of the underlying works. Removal of an author record would not transfer copyright, create a licence, waive moral rights, cure attribution defects, erase provenance, validate derivative use, or make institutional reliance lawful. The author record is not the rights problem. Unauthorized use, unattributed use, misattribution, derivative reliance without clearance, or institutional absorption of authored work without proper provenance are the rights problems this record concerns. This note should be read together with the original Swedish author version of Alla kan blomstra dated 13 January 2025, preserved separately as a public primary-source record. Together, the records document the origin, development, movement, and rights position of the work: first as an independently authored Swedish white paper, later as material shared into project and publication contexts, and finally as a public provenance record retained by the author in her private capacity. This record remains public because the work has an identifiable individual author and rights-holder outside the institutional chain. Finally, this record, like all records, is deposited on Zenodo to preserve a persistent author, citation, and metadata trail. By Zenodo’s repository design, the author’s name, record title, DOI, date, licence, rights notice, and provenance statement are not merely contents of a downloadable file; they form part of the public scholarly metadata surrounding the deposit. Later removal demands, de-linking requests, access changes, restrictions, withdrawal, institutional objections, or disputes concerning the file would not sever the record’s connection to Alyssa Bittner-Gibbs as its named author and rights-holder. Nor would they alter the underlying authorship, copyright, moral-rights, attribution, provenance, or rights-clearance position preserved here. Proper attribution remains required regardless of any later change to file visibility, access status, institutional position, or dispute concerning the record.