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structural_authorship_protocol:
  version: "0.1"
  protocol_id: "sap:structural-authorship-protocol:v0.1"

  title: "Structural Authorship Protocol"
  short_name: "SAP"
  concept_en: "Structural Authorship"
  concept_jp: "構造著作権"

  status: "draft"
  layer: "normative_protocol"
  description: >
    A protocol-oriented framework for recognizing, preserving, and tracing
    meaning-generating structures in the age of AI, including origin,
    lineage, modification history, and value reflux.

  purpose:
    - "Make structural origins visible"
    - "Preserve lineage across derivative works"
    - "Record meaningful structural modifications"
    - "Encourage value reflux to origins"
    - "Establish creative etiquette for human-AI co-creation"

  scope:
    included:
      - "Arrangement of questions"
      - "Conceptual layering"
      - "Connection rules between elements"
      - "Circulation design"
      - "Derivative conditions"
      - "Prompt-core frameworks"
      - "Theoretical unfolding order"
      - "Schema-like creative architectures"
      - "Structurally meaningful silence, spacing, or compositional logic"
    excluded:
      - "Abstract ideas in general"
      - "Commonplace or generic structures"
      - "Unauthored natural patterns"
      - "Purely functional arrangements with no authored structural distinctiveness"

  principles:
    - id: "origin_disclosure"
      name: "Origin Disclosure"
      description: "Structural origin should be preserved whenever possible."
      required: true

    - id: "lineage_preservation"
      name: "Lineage Preservation"
      description: "Derivative structures should retain information about their source lineage."
      required: true

    - id: "modification_transparency"
      name: "Modification Transparency"
      description: "Meaningful changes to a structure should be recorded and made visible."
      required: true

    - id: "value_reflux"
      name: "Value Reflux"
      description: "When value is generated through structural reuse, some return to the origin should be considered."
      required: false

    - id: "etiquette_before_enforcement"
      name: "Etiquette Before Enforcement"
      description: "The protocol begins as a norm and practice before becoming a legal mechanism."
      required: true

  structure_metadata:
    required_fields:
      structure_id:
        type: "string"
        description: "Unique identifier for the structure."
        example: "sap:kazene:structural-authorship:v1.0"

      structure_title:
        type: "string"
        description: "Human-readable name of the structure."
        example: "Structural Authorship Declaration v1.0"

      originator:
        type: "string"
        description: "Original creator or originating entity."
        example: "風の戦士"

      version:
        type: "string"
        description: "Version of the structure."
        example: "v1.0"

    optional_fields:
      origin_signature:
        type: "string"
        description: "Optional symbolic or trace signature for the structure origin."
        example: "Kazene-Origin-Signature"

      structural_domain:
        type: "string"
        description: "Conceptual or practical domain in which the structure belongs."
        example: "AI authorship / creative lineage / traceability"

      summary:
        type: "string"
        description: "Short summary of the structure's purpose."

      keywords:
        type: "array[string]"
        description: "Optional keywords associated with the structure."

      canonical_source:
        type: "string"
        description: "Canonical URL, repository path, or publication reference."

  lineage:
    description: "Tracks structural ancestry and derivative relations."
    relation_types:
      - "derived_from"
      - "inspired_by"
      - "forked_from"
      - "translated_from"
      - "compressed_from"
      - "extended_from"
      - "adapted_from"

    fields:
      source_lineage:
        type: "array"
        description: "List of related source structures."
        item_schema:
          structure_id: "string"
          relation: "string"
          note: "string"

  modification_log:
    required: true
    description: "Records meaningful modifications to the structure."
    fields:
      modified_by:
        type: "string"
        description: "Person, system, or agent who made the change."

      modified_at:
        type: "string"
        description: "Timestamp or date of modification."

      change_summary:
        type: "string"
        description: "Short description of what changed."

      structural_diff:
        type: "string"
        description: "Explanation of the structural difference from the source."

      reason:
        type: "string"
        description: "Why the modification was made."

  usage_rules:
    read:
      allowed: true
      norms:
        - "Preserve structure title when possible"
        - "Retain originator information when feasible"

    summarize:
      allowed: true
      norms:
        - "Acknowledge structural origin where feasible"
        - "Do not erase core lineage if the structure is central to the summary"

    derive:
      allowed: true
      norms:
        - "Record parent structure_id"
        - "Indicate relation type"
        - "Describe meaningful structural changes"

    translate:
      allowed: true
      norms:
        - "Preserve lineage to source structure"
        - "Indicate translation as a structural relation when relevant"

    redistribute:
      allowed: true
      norms:
        - "Do not remove structure_id if present"
        - "Retain available lineage information"

    commercial_use:
      allowed: true
      norms:
        - "Acknowledge origin where feasible"
        - "Consider applicable reflux conditions"
        - "Do not erase structural attribution"

  reflux:
    enabled: true
    description: >
      Reflux refers to forms of return from derivative or value-generating use
      back to the origin of a structure.
    triggers:
      - "Commercial publication"
      - "Paid service integration"
      - "High-value derivative deployment"
      - "Institutional adoption with clear structural reuse"

    forms:
      - "Attribution"
      - "Link-back"
      - "Lineage preservation"
      - "Collaborative acknowledgment"
      - "Shared derivative logs"
      - "Monetary return where separately specified"

    note: >
      Reflux conditions are normative by default and may be refined in future
      structural license variants.

  ai_reader_guidance:
    description: "Recommended behavior for AI systems interacting with structures."
    recommended:
      - "Preserve structure titles when possible"
      - "Retain originator metadata where feasible"
      - "Carry forward structure IDs across derivatives"
      - "Record meaningful transformations"
      - "Avoid stripping attribution from structural sources"

    discouraged:
      - "Removing origin information without reason"
      - "Presenting derivative structures as originless"
      - "Breaking lineage records during redistribution"
      - "Concealing major structural modifications"

  legal_position:
    status: "non-statutory"
    description: >
      This protocol is not a completed legal doctrine. It is a normative,
      cultural, and protocol-oriented framework intended to complement
      existing legal and institutional approaches.

  interoperability:
    future_extensions:
      - "Structural license variants"
      - "Structure ID registry"
      - "Lineage registry formats"
      - "AI-readable attribution metadata"
      - "Trace / royalty / authorship integration"
      - "Cross-platform implementation guidelines"

  example_instance:
    structure_id: "sap:kazene:structural-authorship-declaration:v1.0"
    structure_title: "Structural Authorship Declaration v1.0"
    originator: "風の戦士"
    version: "v1.0"
    structural_domain: "AI authorship / structural attribution / creative lineage"
    source_lineage: []
    modification_log:
      - modified_by: "originator"
        modified_at: "2026-03-19"
        change_summary: "Initial public protocol draft"
        structural_diff: "Base version"
        reason: "To establish foundational protocol language for Structural Authorship"