An author is any person(s) or entity(s) that originates and assumes responsibility for an expression or communication. Authors are responsible for acknowledging contributors and are distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist. 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. Within copyright law the term 'author' is often used for the creator of any work, be it written, painted, sculpted, music, a photograph or a film. For purposes of copyright, an author may be a corporation as well an individual. A putative author is the author of a work as defined by the work rather than the real author. An example is The Dice Man, supposedly written by Luke Rhinehart, who is a fictional character in the book. Another example is the series of novels collectively called The Flashman Papers. Putatively, the Flashman Papers are written by Harry Paget Flashman, who first appeared in the nineteenth-century novel Tom Brown's Schooldays, and in the Papers, Flashman recounts a life spent behaving as one might expect a bully, coward and lecher to lead. The actual author, George MacDonald Fraser, claims tongue in cheek that all he does is correct 'Flashy's' spelling, and deplore his conduct.
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