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Copyright, authorship & moral rights · Working

Based on credit

ELI5

A credit identifying underlying source material or an earlier work from which the project derives.

Used in conversation

“The deal memo should state based on credit clearly.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Based on credit” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.