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Did you take a leaf out of Ted Nelsons book for that or did you come up with it independently ?

Which book are you referring to?

I wasn't the one who came up with the idea for this feature. The initial version of IMVU had this feature, so it's at least 5 years old.

Ted Nelson had a project called Xanadu, that amongst many other things kept track of partial contributions to derivative creations.

If you came up with this independently you may want to look into to the Xanadu project for more inspiration along these lines, it is definitely very interesting reading.

Ahh yes, I'm familiar (though not familiar enough) with project Xanadu. The concept of keeping track of derivations is fairly common; far less common is the idea of derivation for the express purpose of indicating participation in the value chain and thus participation in the compensation.

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