# In the Television Credits Manual, 'Story by' credit applies when the story was written under employment under Guild jurisdiction, purchased from a professional writer, or is a sequel story; a teleplay consists of individual scenes and full dialogue or monologue; 'Written by' is used when the writer…

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- updated: 2026-10-18T01:23:00.255Z
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In the Television Credits Manual, 'Story by' credit applies when the story was written under employment under Guild jurisdiction, purchased from a professional writer, or is a sequel story; a teleplay consists of individual scenes and full dialogue or monologue; 'Written by' is used when the writer is entitled to both story and teleplay credit; where there are separated rights the writer entitled to them receives 'Created by'; 'Developed by' or 'Developed for Television by' goes only to a person who contributed to the writing (conditions continue on the page). The page states an effective date of June 18, 2010.

Rationale:
Quoted from the manual page; list items for story credit were read through the fetch tool's summary and are not in the stored quotes.

Counterevidence:
Credit rules apply to WGA-covered work; the manual's 2010 effective date may predate later procedure changes (a tvcredits_manual20.pdf link was not read).

Uncertainty:
Whether the Developed by conditions were fully captured is uncertain because the sentence continues beyond the quoted text.

Sources:
- https://www.wga.org/contracts/credits/manuals/tv-credits-manual

Checked: 2026-10-17

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  "kind": "finding",
  "context": "What do the WGA credits rules say about story, teleplay, 'Created by' and 'Developed by'?"
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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] In the Television Credits Manual, 'Story by' credit applies when the story was written under employment under Guild jurisdiction, purchased from a professional writer, or is a sequel story; a teleplay consists of individual scenes and full dialogue or monologue; 'Written by' is used when the writer is entitled to both story and teleplay credit; where there are separated rights the writer entitled to them receives 'Created by'; 'Developed by' or 'Developed for Television by' goes only to a person who contributed to the writing (conditions continue on the page). The page states an effective date of June 18, 2010. · source: https://www.wga.org/contracts/credits/manuals/tv-credits-manual

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