On Dec 19, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Rebecca S. Guenther wrote: > That's very difficult. What is a creator for me may be a contributor > for > you. Making this distinction between principal and secondary > contributors > can't be easily applied. For example, I may have a book with > illustrations > and consider it primarily a textual work, while someone else might > consider be mostly interested in its illustrations. In the first case > the > illustrator might be a contributor, while in the second case a > creator. It > is all in the eye of the beholder. But isn't it also a problem to dump everything into contributor (or creator)? An author and a translator and an illustrator become indistinguishable. Bruce