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Claiming the sentence so the blame and the royalties both find you.
means The fact or identity of having written or created a particular work.
from Built from 'author' plus the suffix '-ship,' which marks a state or condition (same pattern as 'friendship' or 'leadership'). 'Author' traces back through Old French 'autor' to Latin 'auctor,' meaning one who originates or causes something to be — itself from the verb 'augere,' to increase or make grow. So an author was first simply 'one who makes things grow into being,' before the word narrowed to mean specifically the maker of a text.
- legal weight
- copyright attaches the instant you write, no stamp needed
- ghostwriting irony
- most authorship on earth is officially credited to someone else
- ai wrinkle
- US Copyright Office still requires a human author to register
- etymology
- from auctor, meaning one who causes things to grow