Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship

Bibliography

Required and Recommended Readings

Theory - Copyright Overviews -Copyright History - International Copyright - Authorship as a Profession - Authorship in the Early Modern Period -Histories of Writing, Printing, and the Book - Writing Technologies - Writing Pedagogy - Institutions of Authorship: Biography, Bibliography - Crimes of Writing and Writing Pathologies : Plagiarism, Forgery, Writers Block - Authorship and Intellectual Property in Research / Science - Geopolitics of Authorship and Intellectual Property - Indigenous Intellectual Property / Traditional Knowledge / Folklore - Women Writing/Gender - Authorship, Intellectual Property and New Technologies - Alphabetical Bibliography

Theory

• Bettig, Ronald V. Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property. Westview 1996.
• Boyle, James. Shamans, Software, & Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Harvard UP 1996.
• Burke, Sean, ed. Authorship from Plato to the Postmodern. A Reader. Edinburgh UP 1995.
• Coombe, Rosemary J. The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law. Duke UP 1998.
• Dearnley, James, and John Feather. The Wired World: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of the Information Society. London Library Assoc. 2001.
• Drahos, Peter, and John Braithwaite. Information Feudalism. Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? New Press 2002.
• Havelock, Eric A. "The Homeric State of Mind." Preface to Plato. Blackwell 1963. Pp. 134-44.
• Jaszi, Peter. “Toward a Theory of Copyright: The Metamorphoses of ‘Authorship.’” Duke Law Journal (1991): 455-502.
• Lang, Berel. Writing and the Moral Self. Routledge 1991.
• Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, 2nd rev. ed. Johns Hopkins UP 1997.
• Mann, Charles, “Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?” Atlantic Monthly, September, 1998, pp. 57-82.
• Sherman, Brad, and Alain Strowel eds. Of Authors & Origins. Oxford 1994.
• Woodmansee, Martha. The Author, Art, and the Market. Columbia UP 1994.
• -----, and Peter Jaszi, eds. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature. Duke UP 1994.

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Copyright Overviews

• Joyce, Craig, et al. Copyright Law, 6th ed. LexisNexis 2003.
• -----. Copyright Law. 6th ed. 2003 Cumulative Supplement. LexisNexis 2003.
• Mann, Charles, “Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?” Atlantic Monthly, September, 1998, pp. 57-82.
• Patterson, L. Ray, and Stanley W. Lindberg. The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users’ Rights. U Georgia P 1991.
• Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York UP 2001.

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Copyright History

• Armstrong, Elizabeth. Before Copyright: The French Book-Privilege System, 1498-1526. Cambridge UP 1990.
• Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell 1994.
• Hesse, Carla. “Enlightenment Epistemology and the Laws of Authorship in Revolutionary France, 1777-1793.” Representations 30 (1990): 109-37.
• Kaplan, Benjamin. An Unhurried View of Copyright. Columbia UP 1967.
• Nowell-Smith, Simon. International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the Reign of Queen Victoria. Clarendon 1968.
• Rice, Grantland S. The Transformation of Authorship in America. U Chicago P, 1997.
• Rose, Mark. Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright. Harvard UP 1993.
• Saint-Amour, Paul K. The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination. Cornell UP 2003.
• Samuels, Edward. The Illustrated Story of Copyright. St. Martins 2000.
• Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York UP 2001.
• Woodmansee, Martha. The Author, Art, and the Market. Columbia UP 1994.

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International Copyright

• Barnes, James J. Authors, Publishers and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854. Routledge 1974.
• Nowell-Smith, Simon. International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the Reign of Queen Victoria. Clarendon 1968.

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Authorship as a Profession

• Beljame, A. Men of Letters and the English Public in the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1744. London: Kegan Paul 1948.
• Bénichou, Paul. The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830. U Nebraska 1999.
• Bonham-Carter, Victor. Authors by Profession, 2 vols. Society of Authors 1978-84.
• Charvat, William. The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870. Ohio State UP 1968.
• Collins, A.S. Authorship in the Days of Johnson. Robert Holden 1927.
• -----. The Profession of Letters. A Study of the Relation of Author to Patron, Publisher, and Public, 1780-1832. Dutton 1929.
• Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer. Cambridge UP 1985.
• DeGrazia, Margreta. Shakespeare Verbatim. Clarendon 1991.
• Disraeli, Isaac. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors.
• Eilenberg, Susan. Strange Power of Speech; Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Literary Possession. Oxford UP 1992.
• Ezell, Margaret J.M. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Johns Hopkins UP 1999.
• Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace 1670-1820. U Cal P 1994.
• Kernan, Alvin. Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Printing. Princeton UP 1987.
• Rice, Grantland S. The Transformation of Authorship in America. U Chicago P, 1997.
• Rogers, Pat. Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture. Methuen 1972.
• Schoenfield, Mark. The Professional Wordsworth. U Georgia P 1996.
• Stillinger, Jack. Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius. Oxford UP 1991.
• Talfourd, Thomas Noon. Critical and Miscellaneous Writings. 2nd ed. A. Hart 1852.
• Turner, Cheryl. Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge 1992.
• Woodmansee, Martha. The Author, Art, and the Market. Columbia UP 1994.

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Authorship in the Early Modern Period

• DeGrazia, Margreta. Shakespeare Verbatim. Clarendon 1991.
• Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge UP 1983.
• Ezell, Margaret J.M. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Johns Hopkins UP 1999.
• Goldberg, Jonathan. Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance. Stanford UP 1990.
• Houston, R.A. Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Culture & Education, 1500-1800. Longman 1988.

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Histories of Writing, Printing, and the Book

• Baron, Naomi S. Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It’s Heading. Routledge 2000.
• Blasselle, Bruno Histoire du livre, 2 vols. Gallimard 1997-98.
• Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, 2nd ed. Erlbaum 2001.
• Chandler, Alfred D., and James W. Cortada, eds. A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Oxford UP 2000.
• Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books. Stanford UP 1992.
• Darnton, Robert. George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. WW Norton 2003.
• Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge UP 1983.
• Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Routledge 1998.
• Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery, eds. The Book History Reader. Routledge 2002.
• Havelock, Eric A. "The Homeric State of Mind." Preface to Plato. Blackwell 1963. Pp. 134-44.
• -----. The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences Princetion UP 1982.
• -----. The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present. Yale UP 1986.
• Houston, R.A. Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Culture & Education, 1500-1800. Longman 1988.
• Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book. Chicago UP 1998.
• Kernan, Alvin. Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Printing. Princeton UP 1987.
• Martin, Henri-Jean. The History and Power of Writing. Chicago UP 1994.
•Masten, Jeffrey, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production. Routledge 1997.
• Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge 1982.
• Robinson, Andrew. The Story of Writing. Thames & Hudson 1995.
• Siskin, Clifford. The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830. Johns Hopkins UP, 1998.

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Writing Technologies

• Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, 2nd ed. Erlbaum 2001
• Dearnley, James, and John Feather. The Wired World: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of the Information Society. London Library Assoc. 2001.
• Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. MIT 2002.
•Masten, Jeffrey, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production. Routledge 1997.
• Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge 1982.

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Writing Pedagogy

• Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality. Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Pittsburgh UP 1992.
• Lunsford, Andrea, and Lisa Ede. Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Southern Illinois UP 1990.
• Murphy, James J., ed. A Short History of Writing Instruction, 2nd ed.. Hermagoras 2001.
• -----, ed. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric, 3rd ed. Hermagoras 2003.
• Reagan, Sally Barr, Thomas Fox, and David Bleich, eds. Writing With: New Directions in Collaborative Teaching, Learning, and Research. SUNY 1994.
• Scholes, Robert. The Rise and Fall of English.Yale UP, 1998.
• Spigelman, Candace. Across Property Lines. Textual Ownership in Writing Groups. Southern Illinois UP 2000.

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Institutions of Authorship: Biography, Bibliography

• Love, Harold. Attributing Authorship: An Introduction. Cambridge UP 2002.
• McGann, Jerome J. The Textual Condition. Princeton UP 1991.
• McKenzie, D.F. The Panizzi Lectures. British Library 1986.
• -----. Making Meaning: “Printers of the Mind” and Other Essays. Ed. Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez. U Mass P 2002.
• Scholes, Robert. The Rise and Fall of English.Yale UP, 1998.

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Crimes of Writing and Writing Pathologies : Plagiarism, Forgery, Writers Block

• Buranen, Lise, and Alice M. Roy, eds. Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. SUNY 1999.
• Farrer, James Anson. Literary Forgeries. Longmans 1907.
• Grafton, Anthony. Forgers and Critics: Creativity: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship. Princeton UP 1990.
• Howard, Rebecca Moore. Standing in the Shadow of Giants.: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators. Ablex 1999.
• LaFollette, Marcel C. Stealing into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing. U Cal P 1992.
• Ruthven, K.K. Faking Literature. Cambridge UP 2001.
• Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation. Oxford UP 1991.

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Authorship and Intellectual Property in Research / Science

• Biagioli, Mario, and Peter Galison, eds. Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science. Routledge 2002.
• LaFollette, Marcel C. Stealing into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing. U Cal P 1992.
• McSherry, Corynne. Who Owns Academic Work: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property. Harvard UP 2001.

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Geopolitics of Authorship and Intellectual Property

• Alford, William P. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. Stanford UP 1995.
• Bettig, Ronald V. Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property. Westview 1996.
• Beck, Ulrich. What Is Globalization? Polity 2001.
• Brown, Michael F. Who Owns Native Culture? Harvard UP 2003. See: www.williams.edu/go/native
• Brush, Stephen B., and Doreen Stabinsky, eds. Valuing Local Knowledge. Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights. Island 1996.
• Coombe, Rosemary J. The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law. Duke UP 1998.
• Ellwood, Wayne. The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization. Verso 2001.
• Featherstone, Mike, ed. Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. Sage 1990.
• Ryan, Michael P. Knowledge Diplomacy: Global Competition and the Politics of Intellectual Property. Brookings Institution P 1997.
• Tomlinson, John. Globalization and Culture. U Chicago P 1999.
• Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs. No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization. U Toronto P 2004.

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Indigenous Intellectual Property / Traditional Knowledge / Folklore

• Barron, Anne. “No Other Law? Author-ity, Property and Aboriginal Art.” Lionel Bently and Spyros M. Maniatis, eds., Intellectual Property and Ethics. Sweet & Maxwell 1998.
• Brown, Michael F. Who Owns Native Culture? Harvard UP 2003. See: www.williams.edu/go/native
• Brush, Stephen B., and Doreen Stabinsky, eds. Valuing Local Knowledge. Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights. Island 1996.
• Dutfield, Graham. Intellectual Property Rights, Trade and Biodiversity. Earthscan 2000.
• Golvan, Colin “Aboriginal Art and Copyright: The Case for Johnny Bulun Bulun.” European Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 11, Issue 10 (Oct. 1989), 346-55.
• Greaves, Tom, ed. Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Sourcebook. Society for Applied Anthropology 1994.

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Women Writing/Gender

• Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Spinsters/Aunt Lute 1987.
• Battersby, Christine. Gender and Genius. Indiana UP 1989.
• Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace 1670-1820. U Cal P 1994.
• Mellor, Anne K. “Writing the Self/Self Writing: William Wordsworth’s Prelude / Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals,” in: Mellor, Romanticism and Gender. Routledge 1993, pp. 144-69.
• Turner, Cheryl. Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge 1992.

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Authorship, Intellectual Property and New Technologies

• Barlow, John Perry. “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”
• -----. “The Economy of Ideas” (1994) < >
• Boyle, James. Shamans, Software, & Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Harvard UP 1996.
• Clapes, Anthony L., Patrick Lynch, and Mark R. Steinberg. “Silicon Epics and Binary Bards: Determining the Proper Scope of Copyright Protection for Computer Programs.” UCLA Law Review, Vol. 34 (1987), 1493-1546.
• Cohen, Adam. “The Intellectual Imperialists.” Review of Lawrence Lessig. Free Culture (2003), New York Times Book Review, April 4, 2004.
• Dearnley, James, and John Feather. The Wired World: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of the Information Society. London Library Assoc. 2001.
• Drahos, Peter, and John Braithwaite. Information Feudalism. Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? New Press 2002.
• Edelman, Bernard. Ownership of the Image. Routledge 1979.
• Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. MIT 2002.
• Himanen, Pekka. The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. Secker & Warburg 2001.
• Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago UP 1993.
• Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, 2nd rev. ed. Johns Hopkins UP 1997.
• Lessig, Lawrence. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. Random House 2001.
• -----. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin 2004. See: <http://free-culture.org>
• Markley, Robert, ed. Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. Johns Hopkins UP 1996.
• McGann, Jerome. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web. Palgrave 2001.
• Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source By an Accidental Revolutionary, 2nd rev. ed. O’Reilly 200l.
• Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 2nd rev. ed. MIT 2000.
Thompson, Clive. “The Virus Underground.” The New York Times Magazine, Feb. 8, 2004, pp. 28-82.

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Alphabetical Bibliography

• Alford, William P. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. Stanford UP 1995.
• Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Spinsters/Aunt Lute 1987.
• Armstrong, Elizabeth. Before Copyright: The French Book-Privilege System, 1498-1526. Cambridge UP 1990.
• Barnes, James J. Authors, Publishers and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854. Routledge 1974.
• Baron, Naomi S. Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It’s Heading. Routledge 2000.
• Barron, Anne. “No Other Law? Author-ity, Property and Aboriginal Art.” Lionel Bently and Spyros M. Maniatis, eds., Intellectual Property and Ethics. Sweet & Maxwell 1998.
• Battersby, Christine. Gender and Genius. Indiana UP 1989.
• Bénichou, Paul. The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830. U Nebraska 1999.
• Bettig, Ronald V. Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property. Westview 1996.
• Biagioli, Mario, and Peter Galison, eds. Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science. Routledge 2002.
• Beck, Ulrich. What Is Globalization? Polity 2001.
• Blasselle, Bruno Histoire du livre, 2 vols. Gallimard 1997-98.
• Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, 2nd ed. Erlbaum 2001.
• Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT 1999.
• Bonham-Carter, Victor. Authors by Profession, 2 vols. Society of Authors 1978-84.
• Boyle, James. Shamans, Software, & Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Harvard UP 1996.
• Brown, Michael F. Who Owns Native Culture? Harvard UP 2003. See: <www.williams.edu/go/native>
• Brush, Stephen B., and Doreen Stabinsky, eds. Valuing Local Knowledge. Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights. Island 1996.
• Buranen, Lise, and Alice M. Roy, eds. Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. SUNY 1999.
• Burke, Sean, ed. Authorship from Plato to the Postmodern. A Reader. Edinburgh UP 1995.
• Chandler, Alfred D., and James W. Cortada, eds. A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Oxford UP 2000.
• Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books. Stanford UP 1992.
• Charvat, William. The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870. Ohio State UP 1968.
• Cohen, Adam. “The Intellectual Imperialists.” Review of Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (Penguin 2004). New York Times Book Review, April 4, 2004, p. 12.
• Collins, A.S. Authorship in the Days of Johnson. Robert Holden 1927.
• -----. The Profession of Letters. A Study of the Relation of Author to Patron, Publisher, and Public, 1780-1832. Dutton 1929.
• Coombe, Rosemary J. The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law. Duke UP 1998.
• Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer. Cambridge UP 1985.
• Crusius, Timothy W. Discourse: A Critique & Synthesis of Major Theories. MLA 1989.
• Darnton, Robert. George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. WW Norton 2003.
• Davidson, Cathy N., ed. Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Johns Hopkins UP 1989.
• Dearnley, James, and John Feather. The Wired World: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of the Information Society. London Library Assoc. 2001
• DeGrazia, Margreta. Shakespeare Verbatim. Clarendon 1991.
• Diringer, David. The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental. Dover 1982.
• Dutfield, Graham. Intellectual Property Rights, Trade and Biodiversity. Earthscan 2000.
• Edelman, Bernard. Ownership of the Image. Routledge 1979.
• Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge UP 1983.
• Ellwood, Wayne. The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization. Verso 2001.
• Ezell, Margaret J.M. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Johns Hopkins UP 1999.
• Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality. Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Pittsburgh UP 1992.
• Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell 1994.
• -----. A History of British Publishing. Routledge 1998.
• Featherstone, Mike, ed. Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. Sage 1990.
• Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery, eds. The Book History Reader. Routledge 2002.
• Foucault, Michel. Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing. Ed. Simon During. Routledge 1992.
• Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace 1670-1820. U Cal P 1994.
• Goldberg, Jonathan. Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance. Stanford UP 1990.
• Golvan, Colin “Aboriginal Art and Copyright: The Case for Johnny Bulun Bulun.” European Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 11, Issue 10 (Oct. 1989), 346-55.
• Greaves, Tom, ed. Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Sourcebook. Society for Applied Anthropology 1994.
• Havelock, Eric A. "The Homeric State of Mind." Preface to Plato. Blackwell 1963. Pp. 134-44.
• -----. The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences Princetion UP 1982.
• -----. The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present. Yale UP 1986.
• Hall, David. D. Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book. U Mass P 1996.
• Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. MIT 2002.
• Hesse, Carla. “Enlightenment Epistemology and the Laws of Authorship in Revolutionary France, 1777-1793.” Representations 30 (1990): 109-37.
• Himanen, Pekka. The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. Secker & Warburg 2001.
• Houston, R.A. Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Culture & Education, 1500-1800. Longman 1988.
• Howard, Rebecca Moore. Standing in the Shadow of Giants.: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators. Ablex 1999.
• Jaszi, Peter. “Toward a Theory of Copyright: The Metamorphoses of ‘Authorship.’” Duke Law Journal (1991): 455-502.
• Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book. Chicago UP 1998.
• Kaplan, Benjamin. An Unhurried View of Copyright. Columbia UP 1967.
• Kernan, Alvin. Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Printing. Princeton UP 1987.
• Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago UP 1993.
• Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, 2nd rev. ed. Johns Hopkins UP 1997.
• LaFollette, Marcel C. Stealing into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing. U Cal P 1992.
• Lessig, Lawrence. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. Random House 2001.
• Lunsford, Andrea, and Lisa Ede. Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Southern Illinois UP 1990.
• Macdonell, Diane. Theories of Discourse: An Introduction. Basil Blackwell 1986.
• Markley, Robert, ed. Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. Johns Hopkins UP 1996.
• Martin, Henri-Jean. The History and Power of Writing. Chicago UP 1994.
•Masten, Jeffrey, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production. Routledge 1997.
• Masten, Jeffrey. Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama. Cambridge UP 1997.
• McGann, Jerome J. The Textual Condition. Princeton UP 1991.
• -----. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web. Palgrave 2001.
• McKenzie, D.F. The Panizzi Lectures. British Library 1986.
• -----. Making Meaning: “Printers of the Mind” and Other Essays. Ed. Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez. U Mass P 2002.
• Mellor, Anne K. Romanticism and Gender. Routledge 1993.
• Murphy, James J., ed. A Short History of Writing Instruction, 2nd ed.. Hermagoras 2001.
• -----., ed. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric, 3rd ed. Hermagoras 2003.
• Nowell-Smith, Simon. International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the Reign of Queen Victoria. Clarendon 1968.
• Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge 1982.
• Patterson, L. Ray, and Stanley W. Lindberg. The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users’ Rights. U Georgia P 1991.
• Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source By an Accidental Revolutionary, 2nd rev. ed. O’Reilly 200l.
• Reagan, Sally Barr, Thomas Fox, and David Bleich, eds. Writing With: New Directions in Collaborative Teaching, Learning, and Research. SUNY 1994.
• Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 2nd rev. ed. MIT 2000.
• Rice, Grantland S. The Transformation of Authorship in America. U Chicago P, 1997.
• Rose, Mark. Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright. Harvard UP 1993.
• Ryan, Michael P. Knowledge Diplomacy: Global Competition and the Politics of Intellectual Property. Brookings Institution P 1997.
• Saint-Amour, Paul K. The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination. Cornell UP 2003.
• Samuels, Edward. The Illustrated Story of Copyright. St. Martins 2000.
• Schoenfield, Mark. The Professional Wordsworth. U Georgia P 1996.
• Scholes, Robert. The Rise and Fall of English.Yale UP, 1998.
• Sherman, Brad, and Alain Strowel. Of Authors & Origins. Oxford 1994.
• Siskin, Clifford. The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830. Johns Hopkins UP, 1998.
• Spigelman, Candace. Across Property Lines. Textual Ownership in Writing Groups. Southern Illinois UP 2000.
• Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation. Oxford UP 1991.
• Tomlinson, John. Globalization and Culture. U Chicago P 1999.
• Turner, Cheryl. Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge 1992.
• Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York UP 2001.
• Viswanathan, Guari. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. Columbia UP 1989.
• Woodmansee, Martha. The Author, Art, and the Market. Columbia UP 1994.
• -----, and Peter Jaszi, eds. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature. Duke UP 1994.