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* Predating Lennon and [=McCartney=] by a few decades, the classic Broadway and Hollywood team of Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin (best known for ''Film/MeetmeInStLouis'') also wrote songs individually then credited each other jointly. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" was basically a Martin song, while Blane was the main writer of "The Trolley Song".
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* Predating Lennon and [=McCartney=] by a few decades, the classic Broadway and Hollywood team of Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin (best known for ''Film/MeetmeInStLouis'') ''Film/MeetMeInStLouis'') also wrote songs individually then credited each other jointly. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" was basically a Martin song, while Blane was the main writer of "The Trolley Song".
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* Like Al Jolson, Music/ElvisPresley got a songwriting co-credit on several of his early hits ("Heartbreak Hotel", "Love Me Tender", "All Shook Up" among them) thanks to deals worked out by his manager UsefulNotes/ColonelTomParker, despite not making any songwriting contributions to them.[[note]]Elvis is known to have geuninely co-written exactly two songs in his career, "That's Someone You Never Forget" and "You'll Be Gone", with a later released improvised outtake called "I Never Made it on Playing Guitar" also credited to him.[[/note]]
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* During their career in Music/TheBeatles, Music/JohnLennon and Music/PaulMcCartney agreed that they'd be credited as equal co-authors for all Beatles songs that they wrote, so Lennon is (and his estate gets royalties for his being) co-author of "Yesterday" even though [=McCartney=] wrote it all by himself.
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* In general, The Writers Guild of America has a lot of authority of which writers are credited on a film, how writers are credited and in what order they are given credit. In some instances, movies that go through several drafts through long development periods may have several writers credited if the Guild deems their contribution enough to be given a screen credit, even if the final product winds up far different.
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* Music/PinkFloyd: "Speak to Me", the opening track of ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', is officially credited to drummer Nick Mason, who rarely ever made any songwriting contributions. While Mason claimed that he indeed wrote the track (a sound collage consisting of clips from other songs on the album) himself, Music/RogerWaters and Richard Wright claimed that they actually wrote the song and simply gave Mason a writing credit so he could make some extra money from songwriting royalties. Following his acrimonious departure from Pink Floyd, Waters stated that he regretted attributing the piece to Mason.
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* In more than one ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip the PointyHairedBoss insists that Dilbert add his name to the patent application, since the program was written while Dilbert is an employee.
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* In the ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode [[Recap/ColumboS01E01 "Murder by the Book"]]. The mystery-writing team of Ken Franklin and Jim Ferris is like this. Ferris does all the actual writing, and Franklin handles all the interviews, book signings and other publicity events. When Ferris decides he wants to write more serious literature and tries to dissolve the partnership, Franklin murders him.
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* In the ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode [[Recap/ColumboS01E01 "Murder by the Book"]]. The mystery-writing team of Ken Franklin and Jim Ferris is like this. Ferris does all the actual writing, and Franklin handles all the interviews, book signings signings, and other publicity events. When Ferris decides he wants to write more serious literature and tries to dissolve the partnership, Franklin murders him.
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* Music/BobMarley wrote the song "No Woman No Cry" himself. However, he gave songwriting credit to his friend Vincent Ford who was able to continue to operate his soup kitchen as a result of the royalty payments.
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* When Music/LedZeppelin wrote their Music/RitchieValens pastiche "Boogie with Stu," they decided to give a writing credit to Valens' mother, as they'd heard that she never got any money from his music after his death. She obviously had nothing to do with writing the song (and the band didn't even know her name, crediting her as "Mama Valens"). This didn't prevent the band from being sued by the studio who actually owned the rights to Valens' music.
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* Music/PinkFloyd: "Speak to Me", the opening track of ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', is officially credited to drummer Nick Mason, who rarely ever made any songwriting contributions. While Mason claimed that he indeed wrote the track (a sound collage consisting of clips from other songs on the album) himself, Music/RogerWaters and Richard Wright claimed that they actually wrote the song and simply gave Mason a writing credit so he could make some extra money from songwriting royalties. Following his acrimonious departure from Pink Floyd, Waters stated that he regretted attributing the piece to Mason.
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* Joked about in a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag where Creator/MattDamon finishes writing ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' and Creator/BenAffleck asks for a co-writing credit. Damon angrily claims that Affleck did nothing but eat ice cream and smoke pot the entire time.
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* ''Webcomic/Housepets'': Grape's favorite novel series, "Pridelands", is ostensibly written by an author known as "Miss Auburn". At a convention, Grape happens to meet up with a fan, Res, who seems to be a major enthusiast of the series. When Grape takes a closer look at Res' material, she realizes that Res '''''is''''' the author of "Pridelands", and that Miss Auburn, his owner, acts as a front for Res because he is shy. However, Grape assumes that Res is being taken advantage of, and unfortunately gets thrown out of the convention as a result. (Things get better, though, as Maxwell was able to get contact information from Res, before things got too out of hand.)
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* Al Jolson made a habit of agreeing to introduce new popular songs to the public on the condition that he would be allowed to change a few words of the lyric, which would allow him to claim a songwriting credit and equal share of the royalties. This is how his name was attached to many, many hit songs, e.g. "Avalon," "Me and My Shadow," "Sonny Boy."
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* In ''[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal]]'', ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'', Creator/DavidMamet is credited as one of the two writers, despite little to nothing of his draft used in the actual film. It was just because his contract demanded so.
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* ''Webcomic/Housepets'': Grape's favorite novel series, "Pridelands", is ostensibly written by an author known as "Miss Auburn". At a convention, Grape happens to meet up with a fan, Res, who seems to be a major enthusiast of the series. When Grape takes a closer look at Res' material, she realizes that Res '''''is''''' the author of "Pridelands", and that Miss Auburn, his owner, acts as a front for Res because he is shy. However, Grape assumes that Res is being taken advantage of, and unfortunately gets thrown out of the convention as a result. (Things get better, though, as Maxwell was able to get contact information from Res, before things got too out of hand.)
* ''Webcomic/Housepets'': Grape's favorite novel series, "Pridelands", is ostensibly written by an author known as "Miss Auburn". At a convention, Grape happens to meet up with a fan, Res, who seems to be a major enthusiast of the series. When Grape takes a closer look at Res' material, she realizes that Res '''''is''''' the author of "Pridelands", and that Miss Auburn, his owner, acts as a front for Res because he is shy. However, Grape assumes that Res is being taken advantage of, and unfortunately gets thrown out of the convention as a result. (Things get better, though, as Maxwell was able to get contact information from Res, before things got too out of hand.)
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Authorship is a glorious thing, but it can be faked. Sometimes a person's name is attached to a work that he in fact wrote little to none of, and he receives credit equal to or greater than the people who really wrote it. If they don't get any credit at all, then it's StealingTheCredit.
In more benign cases, this is due to that person being part of a team whose members all get credited on anything any of them worked on (this may be enforced by contract). In other cases, it's a star performer or big-name executive who insists on being recognized as the writer of the works they will make famous; such stars/executives are often allowed to get away with inserting their name into the byline after they contribute just enough to prove that they really did write part of it. This latter phenomenon is largely endemic to the music industry, where each credited songwriter usually receives an equal share of the royalties.
May overlap with RealLife works created by {{ghostwriter}}s, people who actually did the work, but are not credited or receives very little credit, having been paid in advance for this contractual obligation, if the nominal author is actually a co-author.
See also InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt, for when anybody remotely connected with the work steals the spotlight by taking an ''un''equal credit.
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* In ''[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal]]'', Creator/DavidMamet is credited as one of the two writers, despite little to nothing of his draft used in the actual film. It was just because his contract demanded so.
* In ''Film/{{Roberta}}'', the lyrics of the MovieBonusSong "Lovely to Look At" were credited to Dorothy Fields and Jimmy [=McHugh=]. Fields was the actual lyricist; [=McHugh=] was the composer Fields normally worked with as a team.
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* ''Literature/TheBourneSeries'' - books 4 to 14 all credit ''Creator/RobertLudlum'', as well as their actual writer, Creator/EricVanLustbader, even though Ludum only actually wrote the first 3.
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* Creator/GeneRoddenberry wrote lyrics to the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' ThemeTune, [[ForgottenThemeTuneLyrics never used on the show, and never intended to be used on the show]], so he could lay claim to some of the royalties. The tune's composer, Alexander Courage, was new to contract law at the time and signed away his right to not have lyrics.
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* Al Jolson made a habit of agreeing to introduce new popular songs to the public on the condition that he would be allowed to change a few words of the lyric, which would allow him to claim a songwriting credit and equal share of the royalties. This is how his name was attached to many, many hit songs, e.g. "Avalon," "Me and My Shadow," "Sonny Boy."
* During their career in Music/TheBeatles, Music/JohnLennon and Music/PaulMcCartney agreed that they'd be credited as equal co-authors for all Beatles songs that they wrote, so Lennon is (and his estate gets royalties for his being) co-author of "Yesterday" even though [=McCartney=] wrote it all by himself.
* Music/TheBeachBoys: Music/MikeLove sued bandleader Music/BrianWilson in 1992 over authorship credits for 79 of the group's songs; he ultimately got his name added to 35 of them. Many of the affected songs featured him contributing minor ad-libs such as the lines "goodnight baby, sleep tight baby" in [[Music/PetSounds "Wouldn't It Be Nice?"]]
* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}: During Music/PeterGabriel's tenure as frontman, the band had a policy of crediting every song to the full group to reduce infighting. This was even the case for songs that were primarily written by one or two members, such as [[Music/SellingEnglandbyThePound "More Fool Me"]] (written by Mike Rutherford & Music/PhilCollins) and [[Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway "Counting Out Time"]] (written by Gabriel). The band abandoned the policy in favor of individual credits following Gabriel's departure, which resulted in the infighting that they wanted to avoid, which factored into Music/SteveHackett's departure.
* Music/{{Queen|Band}}: Following Music/FreddieMercury's HIV diagnosis in 1987, the band decided to credit all of their songs to the entire band regardless of who actually wrote it. For instance, [[Music/TheMiracle "Scandal"]] was written solely by Music/BrianMay and [[Music/{{Innuendo}} "These Are the Days of Our Lives"]] was written solely by Roger Taylor, but the whole band is credited for them.
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* When the physicist George Gamow co-wrote a paper with his student Ralph Alpher, he wanted to add the name of his friend Hans Bethe to the paper so the authorship went Alpha, Bethe, Gamow (alpha, beta, gamma). Bethe read the paper, agreed with its findings, and went along with it, unlike another scientist whom Gamow had asked to change his name to Delter.
* The scientific paper "Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc ³He" was published in the journal ''Physical Review'' (November 1975), and was credited to J. H. Hetherington and F. D. C. Willard. However, only Hetherington authored it and the supposed coauthor was actually his pet cat Chester (Felis Domesticus Chester Willard - Willard being Chester's father's name). This was because a colleague pointed out Hetherington had accidentally written the paper in first person plural so it would be rejected, and rather than retype it all in the days before digital word editors he decided it was easier to add a second author.
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* In more than one ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip the PointyHairedBoss insists that Dilbert add his name to the patent application, since the program was written while Dilbert is an employee.
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* In the ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "Murder by the Book," the mystery-writing team of Ken Franklin and Jim Ferris is like this. Ferris does all the actual writing, and Franklin handles all the interviews, book signings and other publicity events. When Ferris decides he wants to write more serious literature and tries to dissolve the partnership, Franklin murders him.
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* Joked about in a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag where Creator/MattDamon finishes writing ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' and Creator/BenAffleck asks for a co-writing credit. Damon angrily claims that Affleck did nothing but eat ice cream and smoke pot the entire time.
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In more benign cases, this is due to that person being part of a team whose members all get credited on anything any of them worked on (this may be enforced by contract). In other cases, it's a star performer or big-name executive who insists on being recognized as the writer of the works they will make famous; such stars/executives are often allowed to get away with inserting their name into the byline after they contribute just enough to prove that they really did write part of it. This latter phenomenon is largely endemic to the music industry, where each credited songwriter usually receives an equal share of the royalties.
May overlap with RealLife works created by {{ghostwriter}}s, people who actually did the work, but are not credited or receives very little credit, having been paid in advance for this contractual obligation, if the nominal author is actually a co-author.
See also InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt, for when anybody remotely connected with the work steals the spotlight by taking an ''un''equal credit.
!!Real Life Examples:
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* In ''[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal]]'', Creator/DavidMamet is credited as one of the two writers, despite little to nothing of his draft used in the actual film. It was just because his contract demanded so.
* In ''Film/{{Roberta}}'', the lyrics of the MovieBonusSong "Lovely to Look At" were credited to Dorothy Fields and Jimmy [=McHugh=]. Fields was the actual lyricist; [=McHugh=] was the composer Fields normally worked with as a team.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheBourneSeries'' - books 4 to 14 all credit ''Creator/RobertLudlum'', as well as their actual writer, Creator/EricVanLustbader, even though Ludum only actually wrote the first 3.
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[[folder:Live-Action Television]]
* Creator/GeneRoddenberry wrote lyrics to the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' ThemeTune, [[ForgottenThemeTuneLyrics never used on the show, and never intended to be used on the show]], so he could lay claim to some of the royalties. The tune's composer, Alexander Courage, was new to contract law at the time and signed away his right to not have lyrics.
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* Al Jolson made a habit of agreeing to introduce new popular songs to the public on the condition that he would be allowed to change a few words of the lyric, which would allow him to claim a songwriting credit and equal share of the royalties. This is how his name was attached to many, many hit songs, e.g. "Avalon," "Me and My Shadow," "Sonny Boy."
* During their career in Music/TheBeatles, Music/JohnLennon and Music/PaulMcCartney agreed that they'd be credited as equal co-authors for all Beatles songs that they wrote, so Lennon is (and his estate gets royalties for his being) co-author of "Yesterday" even though [=McCartney=] wrote it all by himself.
* Music/TheBeachBoys: Music/MikeLove sued bandleader Music/BrianWilson in 1992 over authorship credits for 79 of the group's songs; he ultimately got his name added to 35 of them. Many of the affected songs featured him contributing minor ad-libs such as the lines "goodnight baby, sleep tight baby" in [[Music/PetSounds "Wouldn't It Be Nice?"]]
* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}: During Music/PeterGabriel's tenure as frontman, the band had a policy of crediting every song to the full group to reduce infighting. This was even the case for songs that were primarily written by one or two members, such as [[Music/SellingEnglandbyThePound "More Fool Me"]] (written by Mike Rutherford & Music/PhilCollins) and [[Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway "Counting Out Time"]] (written by Gabriel). The band abandoned the policy in favor of individual credits following Gabriel's departure, which resulted in the infighting that they wanted to avoid, which factored into Music/SteveHackett's departure.
* Music/{{Queen|Band}}: Following Music/FreddieMercury's HIV diagnosis in 1987, the band decided to credit all of their songs to the entire band regardless of who actually wrote it. For instance, [[Music/TheMiracle "Scandal"]] was written solely by Music/BrianMay and [[Music/{{Innuendo}} "These Are the Days of Our Lives"]] was written solely by Roger Taylor, but the whole band is credited for them.
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* When the physicist George Gamow co-wrote a paper with his student Ralph Alpher, he wanted to add the name of his friend Hans Bethe to the paper so the authorship went Alpha, Bethe, Gamow (alpha, beta, gamma). Bethe read the paper, agreed with its findings, and went along with it, unlike another scientist whom Gamow had asked to change his name to Delter.
* The scientific paper "Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc ³He" was published in the journal ''Physical Review'' (November 1975), and was credited to J. H. Hetherington and F. D. C. Willard. However, only Hetherington authored it and the supposed coauthor was actually his pet cat Chester (Felis Domesticus Chester Willard - Willard being Chester's father's name). This was because a colleague pointed out Hetherington had accidentally written the paper in first person plural so it would be rejected, and rather than retype it all in the days before digital word editors he decided it was easier to add a second author.
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!!Fictional examples:
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* In more than one ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip the PointyHairedBoss insists that Dilbert add his name to the patent application, since the program was written while Dilbert is an employee.
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[[folder:Live-Action Television]]
* In the ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "Murder by the Book," the mystery-writing team of Ken Franklin and Jim Ferris is like this. Ferris does all the actual writing, and Franklin handles all the interviews, book signings and other publicity events. When Ferris decides he wants to write more serious literature and tries to dissolve the partnership, Franklin murders him.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Joked about in a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag where Creator/MattDamon finishes writing ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' and Creator/BenAffleck asks for a co-writing credit. Damon angrily claims that Affleck did nothing but eat ice cream and smoke pot the entire time.
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