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There was lots of nice #v4v discussion I had at HCPP. A common theme came up however that I had not considered.

A few people were curious if the idea of splits could be expanded.

For example, say you write a software library. That gets folded into an apple product let's say. What if a percentage of the iPhone gets split down to this app developer.

Another example was say you make a beat. This sample gets mixer into another song, then another etc... the split info just keeps rolling up to the higher work.

I don't know if this is possible today. Podcasting 2.0 will only do this on a complete work and obviously doesn't work on the software example. So I joked and said maybe this is podcasting 3.0.

Has anyone thought about this more? Or are there projects trying to do this at this granular level?
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rheedio · 98w
I think all of this is possible, it's the enforcement that's difficult. Not necessarily saying this should be something that's regulated by a entity, more that it would be challenging to codify and automate these kinds of payment splits that accounted for the ancestry of the source material/contribu...