Authorship
noun
The state or fact of being the person who wrote a particular thing.
She claims authorship of the song, but many people disagree.
Often appears as...
- claim authorship
- question authorship
noun
The job or profession of writing.
His authorship of the novel was a major stepping stone in his career.
Often appears as...
- pursue authorship
- career in authorship
noun
The act of creating a work of art, literature, or music.
The painting's authorship is still being debated by art experts.
Often appears as...
- debate authorship
- confirm authorship
noun
The state or fact of being the person who wrote a particular thing.
She claims authorship of the song, but many people disagree.
Often appears as...
- claim authorship
- question authorship
noun
The job or profession of writing.
His authorship of the novel was a major stepping stone in his career.
Often appears as...
- pursue authorship
- career in authorship
noun
The act of creating a work of art, literature, or music.
The painting's authorship is still being debated by art experts.
Often appears as...
- debate authorship
- confirm authorship
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Ownership Controversy
Authorship can imply a contentious claim over who created a work when there's a dispute.
The controversy over the authorship of the famous novel continues.
Pro Tip 2/3Misattribution Alert
Pointing out incorrect authorship helps credit the rightful creator.
The article's authorship was incorrectly attributed to the wrong journalist.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Authorship
In historical contexts, authorship can be uncertain or disputed over time.
The authorship of ancient texts often remains a mystery.
Pro Tip 1/3Ownership Controversy
Authorship can imply a contentious claim over who created a work when there's a dispute.
The controversy over the authorship of the famous novel continues.
Pro Tip 2/3Misattribution Alert
Pointing out incorrect authorship helps credit the rightful creator.
The article's authorship was incorrectly attributed to the wrong journalist.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Authorship
In historical contexts, authorship can be uncertain or disputed over time.
The authorship of ancient texts often remains a mystery.
Pro Tip 1/3Ownership Controversy
Authorship can imply a contentious claim over who created a work when there's a dispute.
The controversy over the authorship of the famous novel continues.
Pro Tip 2/3Misattribution Alert
Pointing out incorrect authorship helps credit the rightful creator.
The article's authorship was incorrectly attributed to the wrong journalist.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Authorship
In historical contexts, authorship can be uncertain or disputed over time.
The authorship of ancient texts often remains a mystery.
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Steven Johnson: The Web...
and Google just sitting there and running the numbers. So there's this collective decision-making that's going on. This page is effectively, collectively authored by the Web, and Google is just helping us kind of to put the authorship in one kind of coherent place.
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Did Shakespeare write...
formalized a method known as stylometry, applying this knowledge to investigate questions of literary authorship. So how does stylometry work? The idea is that each writer's style has certain characteristics that remain fairly uniform among individual works.
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From Sweden to Harlem: A...
This trade that lot of people of color really started in and served in, but the minute it became a profession didn't fit into anymore, can really take back its authorship. That's the intent. And that takes time.
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Steven Johnson: The Web...
and Google just sitting there and running the numbers. So there's this collective decision-making that's going on. This page is effectively, collectively authored by the Web, and Google is just helping us kind of to put the authorship in one kind of coherent place.
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Did Shakespeare write...
formalized a method known as stylometry, applying this knowledge to investigate questions of literary authorship. So how does stylometry work? The idea is that each writer's style has certain characteristics that remain fairly uniform among individual works.
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From Sweden to Harlem: A...
This trade that lot of people of color really started in and served in, but the minute it became a profession didn't fit into anymore, can really take back its authorship. That's the intent. And that takes time.
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Mary Shelley
English Author
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
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Eavan Boland
Irish Poet
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
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Jaron Lanier
American Artist
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.
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Kate Herron
I just didn't know that you could have a voice and an authorship over a film, which probably sounds a bit silly. But I just hadn't really thought about films in that way.
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Mark Rylance
English Actor
And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.
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Nina Jacobson
American Businesswoman
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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George Sand
French Novelist
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
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Jonathan Ive
English Designer
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
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George Wald
American Scientist
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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Mary Shelley
English Author
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
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Eavan Boland
Irish Poet
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
Quote examples
Jaron Lanier
American Artist
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.
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Kate Herron
I just didn't know that you could have a voice and an authorship over a film, which probably sounds a bit silly. But I just hadn't really thought about films in that way.
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Mark Rylance
English Actor
And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.
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Nina Jacobson
American Businesswoman
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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George Sand
French Novelist
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
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Jonathan Ive
English Designer
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
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George Wald
American Scientist
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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