SCP Foundation

Its a (copyright?) license. If someone wants an item protected under this usage license (maintained by some unknown anomalous government entity), they can do that with multiple options:

- location license: an area of space that, if anyone else but the license owner or other permitted persons manipulates anything in there in any way (like bring an item into or out of that area or dig a hole), violators are punished

- usage license: Self-explanatory, don't touch it

- communication license: Don't talk about it

- knowledge license: essentially makes the object in question an infohazard

Punishments becomes increasingly more severe with each violation. The first instance or so are monetary, but if the violator has no more cash on him or herself then punishments can involve in life-span partitioning, blood rites, etc. Punishment methods and license types shown here is just a handful; maybe there is more.

Its a (copyright?) license. If someone wants an item protected under this usage license (maintained by some unknown anomalous government entity), they can do that with multiple options:

I'm not sure this is a license at all, so much as just laws against certain actions. There isn't really any specific material being licensed against replications and unlawful distribution that I can see here.

- usage license: Self-explanatory, don't touch it

That's not really what "usage" means in the copyright sense, I think?

- communication license: Don't talk about it

How would anyone know that this sort of license is in effect though?

- knowledge license: essentially makes the object in question an infohazard

How so? Wouldn't it be problematic, since in order to know that they can't know about something, wouldn't someone have to know about that thing already?

but if the violator has no more cash on him or herself then punishments can involve in life-span partitioning, blood rites, etc.

How would anyone figure out that stuff is happening though? Keep in mind that as the author, you know the entire story, but the Foundation needs to have discovered what it knows about the SCP object through observation and experimentation. You'll need to convince your reader that someone with no prior knowledge whatsoever of the anomaly managed to somehow figure out (not magically know!) all the information you've got in the article.

Also, aren't there some things that copyright doesn't affect, like parodies and fair-use and so on? I do like the idea of an anomalous copyright license, but it seems like you might want to do more research on existing copyright law and have the premise be more interesting than just "it punishes people anomalously".