Lynn M. Thomson v. Allan S. Larson, Nanette Larson, and Julie Larson McCollum

How courts have described this case

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• stating that all alleged co-authors must fully intend to become co-authors when the joint work was prepared
• discussing contributor’s decision-making authority over what changes are made in the work and whether parties believed they could enter into agreements with “outsiders” concerning use of the work
• acknowledging, but not deciding the possibility that where elements of joint-authorship are not satisfied, a party might still claim authorship of their own contributions
• “The parties’ written agreements with each other can constitute evidence of whether the parties considered themselves to be coauthors”
• “[C]laimant bears the burden of establishing that each of the putative co-authors . . . fully intended to be co-authors.”
• “co-authorship intent does not turn solely on the parties’ own words or professed state of mind.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).