John Hostage wrote:
> If a resource has different authors than another one, it's hard to see how
> that is not a different work, i.e. "distinct intellectual or artistic creation."
Yes, that's a point that came to me during lunch yesterday. If the CREATORS change, then generally you should consider it to be a new work. Jean L. Batman is most emphatically a CREATOR of the 4th edition (which is very well indicated by the layout on the title page). Creators are related to works, not expressions. To say otherwise is to flatly contradict the structure of primary relationships as codified in RDA chapter 19.
Seems to me that a good rule of thumb would be: Are all of the creators the same on this new edition? If not, then we have to consider it a new work. (I'm not talking additional material, like an added preface, etc. I'm talking about the base text.) If the first edition has authors A and B, and the second edition has authors A and C, you have two different works, because there are two different sets of creators. Author B was not involved with the second edition, and author C was not involved with the first edition. You cannot say the two editions are expressions of the same work.
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