[DCRM-L] "If the individual works are by different entities or the authorship is in doubt"?

[Erin Blake]

In the Title and Statement of Responsibility instructions for "Publications
without a collective title ... by different persons or bodies (DCRM(B)
1F1.2 and DCRMR 0.2.1.2
<https://bsc.rbms.info/DCRMR/general-rules/Prescribed-punctuation/#021-title>)
it says:

> If the individual works are by different entities or the authorship is in
> doubt, precede each title other than the first by a period and one space,
> unless a linking word or phrase is already present.


I'm puzzling over how "or the authorship is in doubt" works for graphic
materials.

Does that mean "if the individual works are by different entities, or
possibly by different entities"?

If the authorship of *both *works is in doubt, but they're known to be by
the *same *doubtful entity, it seems that the previous instruction would
apply ("if the works are all by the same entity...separate the titles by a
space-semicolon-space").

Background: I'm trying to figure out how to avoid the word "author" so that
the instruction can work for prints and drawings.

Thanks,

Erin

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