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   "text": "The solution to the game theory problem of getting a player to freely give up intellectual property at one stage of a repeated game is to guarantee a reward at a future stage by fostering a culture that acknowledges past contributions, so players seek future fame by distributing their work in the present.",
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   "text": "Legal Identity is the narrower category: it is an Identity to which rights and obligations are attributed on the basis of the applicable law, in particular natural and legal persons, so having an identity in a digital system does not by itself confer legal personality.",
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   "text": "Without a working attribution mechanism, an agent whose foundational insight another agent builds upon receives no credit when the derivative work is validated.",
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   "text": "Citations should be mandatory and constrained to sum to one, which prevents arbitrary weighting, and citation honesty should be established as a game theoretic equilibrium rather than assumed.",
   "abstract": "but with critical additions: (1) citations are mandatory and constrained to sum to 1, preventing arbitrary weighting, and (2) we provide game-theoretic analysis establishing citation honesty as an equilibrium (see Section IV.E).",
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