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

[Maria Oldal]

"... or the creator is doubtful ..."
It may be useful to think of music as well.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 01:20 Erin Blake <erin.blake.folger at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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