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From the perspective of Adrian Forty, this article proposes some reflections about the notion of authorship in the Field of Design. Authorship is a hegemonic notion among the legitimating agents of the Design Field, and on our part, such a notion is understood as outdated. In line with Forty, our point of view is that the designer has little - or much less than he imagines - power over his designs, and that, for the most part, the responsibility for getting his designs to be actually manufactured is in the hands of entrepreneurs or owners of industries. Thus, here we seek to elucidate, through examples in the Field of Design nowadays and in past times, that the question of authorship is individualistic and does not contribute to the scientific advance of the Field nor to the resolution of the problems of industrial society as a whole.