Overview

Authorship is the immutable record of who submitted an item to Truestamp: it is set once, from the authenticated actor performing the submission, and no later transfer, reassignment, or team move ever rewrites it. It exists purely as an audit-trail fact (“who was at the keyboard”) and is never consulted when the system decides who may read, change, or delete an item; those rights follow ownership instead. Authorship is also deliberately excluded from every cryptographic hash in the item’s composite fingerprint, which is why a Truestamp proof attests what was submitted and when, but makes no claim about who created the underlying content. The full split between the two axes is explained in item ownership vs authorship.