Meeting 1
- 2 - 3 - 4
- 5 - 6 - 7
- 8 - 9 - 10
- 11 - 12 - 13
Meeting 1
INTRODUCTION:
WHAT IS AN “AUTHOR”? WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Meeting 2
DEFINING AUTHORSHIP
REC:
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Meeting 3
WHAT ARE THE STAKES?
Charles Mann, “Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?”
(1998)
James Boyle, “The Information Society”
and “Copyright and the Invention of Authorship”
from Shamans, Software, & Spleens (1996)
Adam Cohen, “The Intellectual Imperialists (1 and 2).”
Review of Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (2003). See
also: <http://free-culture.org>
Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee, “Beyond Authorship:
Refiguring Rights in Traditional Culture and Bioknowledge”
(2003). See <www.globalauthorship.com>
The Bellagio Declaration (1993) <http://www.cwru.edu/affil/sce/BellagioDec.html>
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Meeting 4
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGIMES AND THEIR ORIGINS
Craig Joyce et al, “Introduction:
The Landscape of Copyright - part 1, part-2”
(5.42 MB), (7.39 MB)
Alain Strowel, “’Droit d’auteur’
and Copyright: Between History and Nature,” from
Sherman and Strowel, Of Authors & Origins (1994)
REC:
Benjamin Kaplan, “The First Three Hundred Fifty
Years,” from An Unhurried View of Copyright (1967)
Mark Rose, “The Author as Proprietor” (1988)
Carla Hesse, “Enlightenment
Epistemology and the Laws of Authorship in Revolutionary
France, 1777-1793” (1990)
(3.13 MB)
Grantland S. Rice, “Liberalism
and Republication: The Problem of Copyright for Authorship
in America” (1997)
(4.56 MB)
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Optional Meeting
METAPHYSICS:DEFINING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
John Locke, from The Second Treatise of Government (1690)
Statute of Anne (1710)
US Constitution, Art. 8, Section 8
William Blackstone, from Commentaries on the Laws of
England (1765-69)
Immanuel Kant, “Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting
Books” (1785)
J.G. Fichte, “Proof of the Illegality of Reprinting:
A Rationale and a Parable” (1793)
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Meeting 5
TECHNOLOGIZING THE WORD
Walter Ong, “Writing Restructures Consciousness”
and “Print, Space, and Closure,” from Orality
and Literacy (1982)
Jay David Bolter, from Writing Space, "Writing as Technology" and "Hypertext and the Remediation of Print" 2nd ed. (2001)
George P. Landow, “Reconfiruring the Author,”
from Hypertext 2.0, 2nd ed. (1997)
REC:
Elisabeth Eisenstein, "Defining the Initial Shift"
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Meeting 6
LITERARY ROOTS OF ‘AUTHORSHIP’
Edward Young, from Conjectures
on Original Composition (1759)
William Wordsworth [and Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “Preface”
to the Lyrical Ballads (1800) and “Essay, Supplementary
to the Preface” (1815); the poems "We
are Seven" and "Simon Lee" (1800)
William Wordsworth, Prospectus
to his long (never written) poem, The Recluse (1798/1814);
“Daffodils”;
selected
remarks on copyright: “To the Editor of the
Kendal Mercury” (1838), “Petition to the
House of Commons” (1839), and the sonnets “A
Plea for Authors” and “A Poet to His Grandchild.
Sequel to ‘A Plea for Authors’” (1838)
Dorothy
Wordsworth, from The Grasmere Journals (1800-1803)
REC:
Mellor, Anne K. “Writing the Self/Self Writing:
William Wordsworth’s Prelude / Dorothy Wordsworth’s
Journals” (1993)
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Meeting 7
‘AUTHORSHIP’ IN THE LAW, I
Thomas Noon Talfourd, “Speech on the Motion for
Leave to Bring in a Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright”
(1837)
Thomas B. Macaulay, “A Speech Delivered in the
House of Commons on the 5th of February, 1841”
REC:
Martha Woodmansee, “The Cultural Work of Copyright:
Legislating Authorship in Britain, 1837-1842”
(1998)
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Meeting 8
‘AUTHORSHIP’ IN THE LAW, II
CASES AND CONCEPTS
Burrow-Giles v. Sarony
(1884)
(769 KB)
Bleistein v. Donaldson (1903)
Acuff-RoseMusic v. Campbell (1992)
Campbell
v. Acuff-Rose Music (1994)
(1.77 MB)
Rogers
v. Koons (1990)
(1.32 MB)
Castlerock v. Carol Publishing (1998)
Gracen v. Bradford Exchange (1983)
Childress v. Taylor (1991)
Thomson v. Larson (1998)
Feist v. Rural Telephone (1991)
REC:
Peter Jaszi, “Toward a Theory of Copyright:
The Metamorphoses of ‘Authorship’”
(1991)
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Meeting 9
BEFORE ‘AUTHORSHIP’
Jeffrey Masten, “Playwrighting: Authorship and
Collaboration” (1997)
Lisa Maruca, “Bodies of Type: The Work of Textual
Production in English Printers’ Manuals ”
(2002)
Margreta DeGrazia, from Shakespeare Verbatim (1991)
REC:
Martha Woodmansee, “On the ‘Author Effect’:
Recovering Collectivity,” from Woodmansee and
Jaszi, eds., The Construction of Authorship (1994)
Peter Jaszi, “On the ‘Author Effect’:
Contemporary Copyright and Collective Creativity,”
from Woodmansee and Jaszi, eds., The Construction of
Authorship (1994)
Max Thomas, “Reading and Writing the Renaissance
Commonplace Book: A Question of Authorship?’ from
Woodmansee and Jaszi, eds., The Construction of Authorship
(1994)
Maurizio Borghi, “Writing Practices in Privilege
and Intellectual Property Systems” (2003)
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Meeting 10
GEOPOLITICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
James Boyle, “The International Political Economy
of Authorship,” from Shamans, Software and Spleens
(1996)
Rosemary Coombe, “Embodied Trademarks: Mimesis
and Alterity on American Commercial Frontiers”
and “The Properties of Culture and the Politics
of Possessing Identity,” from The Cultural Life
of Intellectual Properties (1998)
William P. Alford, “Don’t Stop Thinking
About . . . Yesterday: Why There Was No Indigenous Counterpart
to Intellectual Property Law in Imperial China,”
from To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense (1995)
Cases:
Yumbulul v. Reserve Bank of Australia (1991)
Milpurrurru v. Indofurn (1994)
Bulun Bulun v.R & T Textiles (1998)
REC:
Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture? (Harvard UP
2003) at: <www.williams.edu/go/native>
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Meeting 11
AUTHORSHIP AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
IN THE DIGITAL ERA
John Perry Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence
of Cyberspace” <www.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html>
and “The Economy of Ideas” (1994) <www.eff.org/~barlow/EconomyOfIdeas.html>
Anthony L. Clapes, Patrick Lynch, and Mark R. Steinberg,
“Silicon Epics and Binary Bards: Determining the
Proper Scope of Copyright Protection for Computer Programs”
(1987)
James Boyle, “Proposals and Objections,”
from Shamans, Software & Spleens (1996)
Lawrence Lessig, “Piracy” and “Afterword,’
from Free Culture (2003). See also <http://free-culture.org>
Eldred v. Ashcroft
REC:
Siva Vaidhyanathan, “The Digital Moment,”
from Copyrights and Copywrongs (2001)
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Meeting 12
‘AUTHORIAL’ READING AND WRITING REGIMES
E.D. Hirsch, “Objectivity in Interpretation”
(1960)
Martha Woodmansee, “Aesthetics and the Policing
of Reading” (1988), from The Author, Art, and
the Market (1994)
Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede, “Collaborative Authorship
and the Teaching of Writing,” from Woodmansee
and Jaszi, eds., The Construction of Authorship (1994)
Laurie Stearns, “Copy Wrong: Plagiarism, Process,
Property, and the Law,” from Buranen and Roy,
eds., Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property
(1999)
Lisa Maruca, “The Plagiarism Panic” (2004)
REC:
Peter Elbow from Writing with Power (1981)
Jim Swan, “Touching Words: Helen Keller, Plagiarism,
Authorship,” from Woodmansee and Jaszi, eds.,
The Construction of Authorship (1994)
L.M Dryden, “A Distant Mirror or Through the
Looking Glass? Plagiarism and Intellectual Property
in Japanese Education,” from Buranen and Roy,
eds., Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property
(1999)
Kevin J.H. Dettmar, “The Illusion of Modernist
Allusion and the Politics of Postmodern Plagiarism,”
from Buranen and Roy, eds., Perspectives on Plagiarism
and Intellectual Property (1999)
Debora Halbert, “Poaching and Plagiarizing: Property,
Plagiarism, and Feminist Futures,” from Buranen
and Roy, eds., Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual
Property (1999)
Linda Ferreia-Buckley and Winifred Hornel, "Writing Instruction in Great Britain: the 18th and 19th Centuries." (2001)
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Meeting 13
AUTHORSHIP IN SCIENCE
Myles W. Jackson, “Can Artisans Be Scientific
Authors?” from Biagioli and Galison, eds, Scientific
Authorship (2003)
Corynne McSherry, “Uncommon Controversies: Legal
Mediations of Gift and Market Models of Authorship,”
from Biagioli and Galison, eds, Scientific Authorship
(2003)
Mario Biagioli, “Rights or Rewards? Changing
Frameworks of Scientific Authorship,” from Biagioli
and Galison, eds, Scientific Authorship (2003)
Shirley K. Rose, “The Role of Scholarly Citations
in Disciplinary Economies,” from Buranen and Roy,
eds., Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property
(1999)
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