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However, in a field of free works, one large work can have hundreds, even thousands of authors. There can be various versions with different, overlapping sets of authors. Moreover, the contributions of those authors will differ in kind as well as in magnitude. This makes it impossible to divide the work's popularity among the contributors in a way that can be justified as correct. It's not just hard work; it's not merely complex. The problem raises philosophical questions that have no good answers.