1. A method comprising: receiving a claim from an authoring agent of a social networking system, where the claim comprises an assertion made by the authoring agent to an audience, where the assertion includes a content item stored in a binary storage, and where a copyright bit is determined for the claim by an owner agent of the social networking system identified by the authoring agent; receiving an indication that a viewing agent of the social networking system is viewing the claim; determining an ability of the viewing agent to copy the claim based on the copyright bit; and responsive to determining that the viewing agent has the ability to copy the claim based on the copyright bit, enabling the viewing agent to copy the claim including the content item stored in the binary storage in the social networking system in response to the indication.