Timeline for How do co-authors' rights to a manuscript work?
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| Feb 12, 2012 at 15:14 | comment | added | Cliff Hangerson Page | @Standback: All authors have to intend to merge their contributions into a single work at the time that they create them, otherwise they are not considered co-authors. For U.S. law (at least on the West Coast), there's a 4-factor test from Aalmuhammed v. Lee -- most important are whether the authors referred to themselves at co-authors at the time of creation, and whether their contributions have value standing by themselves (or are only valuable as part of the entire work). It does get complicated, no doubt. | |
| Feb 11, 2012 at 22:33 | comment | added | Standback | This is great stuff! It's breathtaking how complicated this can get... A question - can somebody become a co-author without consent? E.g. Ernie composes music for the lyrics of Bert's poem... That can't be possible, right? So how do you define that the two people actually collaborated? | |
| Feb 11, 2012 at 22:30 | vote | accept | Standback | ||
| Feb 10, 2012 at 10:46 | history | edited | Cliff Hangerson Page | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2012 at 10:37 | history | edited | Cliff Hangerson Page | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2012 at 10:26 | history | answered | Cliff Hangerson Page | CC BY-SA 3.0 |