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 … 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.
