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A contribution can be documented without being accurately valued, and it can be valued without automatically creating a legal ownership right.
A provenance record can establish what data was submitted, by which verified identity, at what time, and with what referenced context. Cryptographic integrity can make later alteration detectable. It does not prove that the original assertion was true.
Evidence and verification procedures must determine whether the recorded contributor actually made the claimed contribution and whether the contribution is distinct from prior work.
Performance evidence and decomposition methods estimate how the contribution affected an outcome and how that effect relates to value. Model choice, counterfactual design, interaction effects, persistence assumptions, and uncertainty can materially change the estimate.
A royalty, property interest, security, license, or other economic claim requires an applicable contract, statute, regulation, or binding legal determination. Attribution and valuation alone do not create that entitlement.
PBS is proposed as an instrument layer that could connect documented contributions and performance evidence to economic claims. The legal character of any claim would depend on the actual instrument and governing law.