Two Heads Better? The Legal Side of Collaboration
By John Paul Benitez, Attorney at Law
Collaborating with another artist may generate a masterpiece, and it may also produce a mess. When more than one artist is an "author" of a work, the normal expectations about ownership and copyright get skewed. If two or more people create works, intending to put them together in a single cohesive work, the resulting collaborative piece is a "joint work."
