Definitions

General

An author is

• a person or entity responsible for the content of a book or other publication.

• "[t]he user responsible for creating or modifying a document or requirement."^[1]

U.S. copyright law

While the term author is used repeated in U.S. copyright law, the term is never defined. The U.S. Supreme Court has defined an "author" as “[h]e to whom anything owes its origin; originator, maker.”^[2]

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