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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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authorship fluctuates

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Author

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nuanced understanding

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popular discourse

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Who writes this stuff, anyway?

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Problem:

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Authorship is not a static construct

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Situational Authorship

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Encyclopedic Authorship

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Filtering

Re-composing

Evaluating

Surveying

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Textual Curation

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1728

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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

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1738

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advertising for submissions

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perpetual editions

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is never finished.

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new forms of authors

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new forms of curators

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Bot-writtentexts

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be polite

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match human syntax

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drive change

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Darwin, MN

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17 out of 32 edits

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Who wrote this entry?

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Who owns this knowledge?

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Genre shapes authorship.

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Rethink.

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Rewrite.