System and method for sharing digital objects

A method of tracking and benefiting sources of components in transferred digital items in a digital gaming environment, the method comprising:

• receiving notification of a transfer of a digital item to a receiving user account, the digital item comprising a plurality of components in the digital gaming environment, wherein at least two of the components are associated with different respective sources, and wherein the notification is received by a server that hosts the digital gaming environment;
• and
• executing instructions stored in memory of the server, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor of the server:
• compares the digital item associated with the received notification against a registry of digital items, wherein the comparison evaluates a degree of similarity between the digital item associated with the received notification and each of the digital items on the registry,
• identifies at least one similarity between the digital item associated with the received notification and the respective digital item on the registry,
• assigns a value to a set of similarities, the set of similarities including each identified similarity,
• compares the assigned value with respect to a predetermined copying threshold, and
• in response to the assigned value being identified as less than the predetermined copying threshold:
• allows the transfer of the digital item to the receiving user account,
• constructs an authorized copy of the digital item from the components associated with the different respective sources based on an associated template, and
• provides a benefit to the different respective sources upon completion of the transfer, the benefit for each source based on a difference between the assigned value and a predetermined benefits threshold for each source;
• and
• in response to the assigned value being identified as at least meeting the predetermined copying threshold:
• prevents the transfer of the digital item to the receiving user account, wherein the receiving user account is not permitted to construct an authorized copy of the digital item from the components associated with the different respective sources based on the associated template.