Meaning of Author
The word author comes from the Latin "auctor", "auctōris" which means "instigator", "source" or "promoter" ; composed of «augere» which means to increase, improve or enlarge, plus the suffix «tor» which refers to «agent» which is the one doing the action. Therefore, it can be said that the author does not necessarily have to create something, he can only perfect something that already existed and then promote it . The word author can be defined as the person or individual who is the cause of something or who invents it; but it also refers to the person who has produced some kind of literary , scientific or artistic work .
The author's conceptualization began to develop in the renaissance stage, connecting to a great extent with the invention of the printing press. Although in the Middle Ages there were authors but the development occurred was for the Renaissance , when it also began to have its own legal value.
In the field of law , author is the individual who executes a particular crime, forces or induces others directly to perpetrate it, or on the other hand cooperates for its execution.
In a general sense, we can come across two types of legal meanings that refer to the possible relationship between an author and his work, where one of them is related to the copyright , supported by the criterion that the work is a creation and manifestation of the author on which the same reserves moral rights; this conception derives from French law . And the other related to the right of duplication or imitation, which discards the notion of moral right , that the author only recognizes the conception of a given production; and this conception derives from Anglo-Saxon law .
Finally, author was that person who the economic government of them, as well as the distribution or distribution of goods or capital, which happened in comic companies, until the beginning of the 19th century .