# I’d like to point out that Project Xanadu (which, btw, is still going on)
is, at its core, an…

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I’d like to point out that Project Xanadu (which, btw, is still going on) is,
at its core, an attempt to solve this attribution problem permanently (at
least for all good-faith actors) by focusing on quotation as a primary factor
in composition (seeing editing as a form of selective quotation and
rearrangement from previous drafts, for instance). Every so often I see
articles like this (or articles on similar topics like music credits) that
point out how necessary this tech still is — this clearly-skilled guy would
still have his job if, by default, copy and paste between applications
implicitly kept source attributions.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [April 25,
2016](https://medium.com/p/f2f37d77b17b).

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xanadu-which-btw-is-still-going-on-is-at-its-core-an-f2f37d77b17b)

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