[parkan]

Because our system represents extant authorship relationships (as opposed to creating a whole new first-to-file system like some other approaches in the space), we defer to existing authorities whenever possible -- so authorship information provided by MoMA, NYPL, DPLA, etc is considered authoritative, whereas statements by a private individual generally do not carry the same weight. All of this (including conflicting statements) is surfaced at read time and can be subject to different weighting depending on the situation (best-effort attempt to find the author of an image for discovery purposes, versus automatic payment, for example)