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The Modern Language Association (MLA) maintains a style guide followed by many authors for citing bibliographic references in a book or scholarly work. Certain style rules apply when citing more than one author of a work being used as a reference. more »
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When you are writing a term paper or working on a longer term research project, it is important to keep track of your sources of information so that you can credit them for contributing to your own original conclusions. While traditionally this type of credit has been given via footnote, more recent forms of citation actually occur... more »
Harvard style is the most commonly used academic citation method in the world. References and citations are methods of giving credit for concepts and ideas that you use as bases for your own conclusions in your research process. Harvard-style citations use a small note within the text of the paper to direct a reader to more extensive... more »
When you start a book club, you get to make up the book list and format the type of discussions, or you can opt to make the process more democratic. Either way, the goal is to generate lively discussions about thought-provoking books. more »
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An author (sometimes, in reference to a woman author, authoress) is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. The second entry goes on to clarify that, when using the term "author," the "anything" which is created is most usually associated with written work.
Author of a written work
Legal significance
In copyright law, there is necessarily little flexibility as to what constitutes authorship. The United States Copyright Office defines copyright as "a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to authors of "original works of authorship". Holding the title of "author" over any "literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, certain other intellectual works" gives this person, the owner of the copyright, exclusive right to do or authorize any production or distribution of their work. Any person or entity wishing to use intellectual property held under copyright must receive permission from the copyright holder to use this work, and often will be asked to pay for the use of copyrighted material. After a fixed amount of time, the copyright expires on intellectual work and it enters the public domain, where it can be used without limit. Copyright law has been amended time and time again since the inception of the law to extend the length of this fixed period where the work is exclusively controlled by the copyright holder. However, copyright is merely the legal reassurance that one owns his/her work. Technically, someone owns their work from the time its created. An interesting aspect of authorship emerges with copyright in that it can be passed down to another upon ones death. The person who inherits the copyright is not the author, but enjoys the same legal benefits.
Questions arise as to the application of copyright law. How does it, for example, apply to the complex issue of fan fiction? If the media agency respons read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author
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