"What can be owned is the name, in other words the asset, any past records metadata just give it historic value. But the same is true about any other NFT: what you own is just a number (the token ID). 

Any metadata, image, whatever “attached” to an asset/token is just something referred to on the blockchain and philosophically not necessarily “owned” by the asset/token owner.

However, if the current social consensus is that metadata by a particular artist, entity or date makes a token ID valuable, then so be it.”

Daniel Kraft for @archivist

"What can be owned is the name, in other words the asset, any past records metadata just give it historic value. But the same is true about any other NFT: what you own is just a number (the token ID). 

Any metadata, image, whatever “attached” to an asset/token is just something referred to on the blockchain and philosophically not necessarily “owned” by the asset/token owner.

However, if the current social consensus is that metadata by a particular artist, entity or date makes a token ID valuable, then so be it.”

Daniel Kraft for @archivist 

https://archivist-eth.medium.com/namecoin-expired-names-and-provenance-misconceptions-c55efc03e085