Generally refers to the creator of literary, artistic and scientific works, and sometimes refers to the founder of a certain theory, or the organizer or planner of an event. In the copyright laws of the Soviet Union, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Spain and other countries, the author refers to a natural person who directly engages in literary and artistic creation activities through his own independent thoughts and uses his own skills and methods to create works that reflect the creator's personal characteristics.

Among them are novelists, poets, essayists, playwrights, composers, lyric writers, journalists, painters, calligraphers, sculptors, handicraft designers, and? Architect, photographer, translator, computer programmer, etc. The copyright laws of the United States, Japan and other countries also recognize legal persons as authors.

As far as general works are concerned, legal persons or non-legal entities can be presumed as authors through their signatures; As far as works that meet certain conditions are concerned, legal persons or non-legal entities can be regarded as authors. The difference between being presumed to be the author and being regarded as the author lies in that the identity of the author in the former case can be denied by the opposite proof in the confirmation lawsuit; In the latter case, the identity of the author cannot be denied by proof to the contrary in the confirmation proceedings.