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An author is any person(s) or entity(s) that originates and assumes responsibility for an expression or communication. Authors should be responsible for acknowledging contributors. Frequently, the word author is used to suggest a person who creates a written Work , such as a Book , story, article, or the like, whether short or long, Fiction or Nonfiction , Poetry or Prose , technical or Literary . For purposes of copyright, an author may be a corporation as well an individual. In literary theory, the author function is the writer of a work as seen by the reader. Each work by the same author has a separate author function, and each work by numerous or unknown authors has a single distinct author function. In the wake of Postmodern Literature , Roland Barthes in his seminal essay '' Death Of The Author '' (1968) and other literary critics have questioned this function, i.e. the Relevance of the authorship to a text's Meaning . SOME HISTORICAL FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS A percentage (calculated on a wholesale or a retail price) or fixed amount, on each book sold. Publishers, at times, reduced the risk of this type of arrangement, by agreeing only to pay this after a certain amount of copies had sold. In Canada this practice occurred during the 1890s, but was not commonplace until the 1920s.
LEGAL USAGE In Copyright Law the term "author" is used to describe the creator of any work, be it written, painted, sculpted, music, a photograph or a film. A work can have multiple authors, defined under the and a Work Made For Hire can be "authored" by a corporation or other business entity. SEE ALSO
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