who is the entry author?

[Zhiwu Xie]

Hi,
Just a question on the syntax of atom:author. Is it the author of the 
content an entry refers to, or is it the one who posts the content to a 
content management system therefore generates an atom entry? I checked 
google blog and it seems the later is the case (snippet below), but then 
earlier discussions seems to suggest the former, e.g., multiple 
authors/contributors discussion.

The same question can be asked on all the other metadata, e.g., rights, 
updated, published, etc. A more general question is, what all these 
entry metadata are about. The spec says they are all about the feed or 
entry, but it's not immediately clear to me what does the entry metadata 
are about, the XML element itself or the content an entry points to. 
This has much different implications, e.g., if atom:right says do not 
copy, does it mean this atom entry cannot be aggregated by other Atom 
feed aggregator or the contents cannot be distributed within the 
atom:content?

Thanks,

Zhiwu Xie

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google blog snippet: The author of the content should be Matthew 
Glotzbach, inferred from the content, but the entry author is set to Karen.

<entry>
  <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10861780.post-4599612599595997166</id>
  <published>2007-07-26T11:13:00.000-07:00</published>
  <updated>2007-07-26T11:43:42.465-07:00</updated>
  <title type="text">Earth to the Enterprise</title>
  <content type="html">
    &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Matthew
    Glotzbach, Product Management Director, Google
    Enterprise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...
  </content>
  ...
  <author>
    <name>Karen</name>
  </author>
</entry>