attribution

IPA: ætrɪbjˈuʃʌn

The act of attributing something.
An explicit or formal acknowledgment of ownership or authorship.
(law) A legal doctrine by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the tortious or criminal act.

Examples of "attribution" in Sentences

To be frank, the attribution is nonsense.
The attributions are gratuitous and wrong.
The accuracy of the attribution is important.
Egocentric biases in availability and attribution.
However, the issue of copying recipes without attribution is one that, sooner or later, all food writers must confront.
Now the paragraph I just wrote, quoting a couple bits of the ReadWriteWeb post with attribution, is an example of fair use.
Consequently, the author ` s derivative right is to accuracy in attribution (whether explicit or implicit), not to attribution per se.
Like any science, the attribution is done by creating hypotheses about possible effects of each forcing, and then testing those hypotheses.
Sobran seems to be unaware that lists of parallels such as he provides have long been looked at very skeptically in attribution studies, since writers in any era consciously or unconsciously influence each other and draw on common sources.
Wikipedia has a good page on the Shakespeare Apocrypha, “a group of plays that have sometimes been attributed to William Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable for various reasons”. (thx, jeffrey & nick) posted by Deron Bauman in art, history, international, language, literature, science | * | comment