Conflict of Authorship:Name of Original Author Merged in Title

Abstract

If the name of the original author is merged in the title, it may give rise to a conflict of authorship. Ordinarily, such a conflict falls in the category "Person vs Person." As regards resolution of conflict of authorship, the implication of the Principle of Unity of Idea is that a cataloguing code should (1) recognise resolution of connect of authorship as a problem quite distinct from those of choice, rendering, and recording the name of the author; and (2) give an independent set of rules for the resolution of conflict of authorship. A conflict of authorship arising out of the merger of the name of the orginal author in the title, should ordinarily be resolved at the level of definition of terms that is, with reference to the formal definitions of the terms 'Personal Author' and , Personal Collaborator. If they do not prove sufficient for the purpose, the definition of the term 'Personal Author' is to be propped up by an interpretative definition. In the light of the above criteria, a comparative study of the respective approaches of the different editions of CCC, and AACR to resolve the conflict, is made. The following interpretative definition of the term 'Author' is proposed to resolve the conflict. In case the name of the author of the original work is merged in the title of the revised work, the author of the original work is the author of the revised work if the reviser himself definitely indicates, in the Collaborator Statement on the title-page, that he himself is only a collaborator of the work concerned.