Reuse Case: Entangled Authorship

A collective of artists experiences friction when one of its members reuses parts of a text they had written collaboratively. Some members work within academia, others independently. Assuming the text is collectively owned, and with a deadline looming, the freelance practitioner includes the fragment in a workshop announcement, published online, without double-checking with the others. One member who is working in academia is about to publish their book with a renowned academic publishing house. In an automated plagiarism test, passages of their book turn up as plagiarized from the online workshop announcement. They need to explain the publisher that they had written this particular fragment of the text, but that it was re-used and circulated without credits.