What is AUTHOR? Definition of AUTHOR in Black's Law Dictionary
One who produces, by his own intellectual labor applied to the materials of his composition, an arrangement or compilation new in itself. Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 4 S.Ct. 279, 111 U.S. 53, 28 L.Ed. 349. A beginner or mover of anything; hence efficient cause of a thing ; creator ; originator ; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator or compiler. Remick Music Corp. v. Interstate Hotel Co. of Neb., D.C.Neb., 58 F.Supp. 523, 531.
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