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When creative partners disagree about intellectual ownership

My creative partner and I have been collaborating for years but lately I feel like they take credit for ideas that come from our conversations together. When I brought it up they said that's just how creative partnerships work and maybe I'm being too sensitive about ownership.

Juana
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Two collaborators have different understandings of how shared creative work should be attributed.

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