Advocacy Newsroom

When Should I Give Someone a Co-Writing Credit?

With our members hard at work writing and revising pieces for End of Play.®, the Guild has received a number of inquiries asking when it is appropriate to give someone a co-writing credit. To answer that question, first it is important to understand one of the basic fundamentals of copyright law: the idea/expression dichotomy. Under copyright law, only an author’s original expressions that are fixed in a tangible medium (i.e. written down or...
The Dramatist

How to Collaborate in a Collaborative Art

If you will kindly sit at these four knees, I will try to tell you something about collaboration. These four knees are composed of my own two, plus the pair belonging to my partner Adolph Green, without whose knees I haven’t done much writing to speak of. His are usually facing mine across whatever...