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 Alpha: Of course! The idea was mine; thus, money derived from this idea belongs to me!

Gamma: You can share it. A portion of it will be paid out as royalties, and the remainder belongs to the business.

Alpha: That’s what I meant.

Beta: How about the revenue received by Alpha from my work? He clearly gets it. Shouldn’t he share?

Delta: How on earth can we measure all these mutual dependencies?

Gamma: Listen, listen! I have another question!

Alpha: Hold it! I need to argue what Beta said!

Teacher: Go ahead.

Gamma: Who?

Alpha: All right, you go.

Gamma: Thanks &hellip; but I lost it.

Alpha: Are you sure?

Gamma: I am, go ahead.

Royalties versus Attribution Alpha: All right. There is no law that says if you take my recipe, you have to say where you got it from! You will not advertise for me, and I don’t owe you anything whatsoever, but you owe me!

Gamma: Who was talking about a law?

Alpha: Law is reality, isn’t it? What are we talking about if not reality?

Teacher: This is a new turn in our conversation. We haven’t discussed existing laws yet. We are discussing relations and discrepancies between the worlds of culture and civilization.

Alpha: Where do laws belong?

Teacher: Wherever they belong, they change anyway. I would say that we want to figure out what the law should be like. How can future laws ideally address the specifics of and relationship between culture and civilization? I think we have to comprehend these realities before we start talking about law.

Alpha: You never said that.

Teacher: Of course, I didn’t. Law was not the subject at the time. We can discuss it later if we find it suitable.