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CCCC09 talk for panel on "Redefining Intellectual Property in the Digital Copyright Debate" with John Logie and Jessica Reyman.
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Rewriting the
Author
authorship fluctuates
Author
nuanced understanding
popular discourse
Who writes this stuff, anyway?
Problem:
Authorship is not a static construct
Situational Authorship
Encyclopedic Authorship
Filtering
Re-composing
Evaluating
Surveying
Textual Curation
1728
The Work is, what it ought to be, a Collection ; not the Produce of a single Brain, for that would go but a little way ; but of a whole Commonwealth. …
The Book is not mine, ‘tis every body’s ; the mix’d Issue of a thousand Loins.
- Ephraim Chambers
1738
advertising for submissions
perpetual editions
is never finished.
new forms of authors
new forms of curators
Bot-writtentexts
be polite
match human syntax
drive change
Darwin, MN
17 out of 32 edits
Who wrote this entry?
Who owns this knowledge?
Genre shapes authorship.
Rethink.
Rewrite.
