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From: | Anthony Youngman |
Subject: | Re: PDF author metadata |
Date: | Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:19:20 +0100 |
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On 07/07/16 08:38, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
On 07/07/2016 02:23 AM, David Kastrup wrote:Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:Who should be in your opinion the author of a LilyPond score PDF? The composer or the typesetter?Usefulness does not come into play here as long as there is a standard. The PDF standard states: Key Type ValueAuthor text string (Optional) The name of the person who created the document.“[T]he person who created the document” is extremely ambiguous. Is “the document” the composition, the score, the arrangement... ? The philosophers with whom I work can (and do!) spend years debating these things.
None of those. The document is the computer file. If I hit "new" in MS Word, it is my name that gets plonked in the "author" field of *that* document. The fact that I *may* be copying *another* document is irrelevant - what I am copying is something else - a different document. I created the current document, I am the author. (Unfortunately, the word author implies creativity, but then, they did create the document :-)
Sounds like they should have used the word "scribe", not "author". Only snag is, they would then have had people asking "what is a scribe?". But think of a shaman dictating a story to a western collector. The shaman is the story-teller, the westerner (the scribe) is the author of the book.The shortest realistic answer is that whoever creates the PDF decides who the “author” of that PDF is; if they don’t care enough to credit someone else, then it’s them, or no one at all.
Cheers, Wol
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