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Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship

 
 

Syllabus

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)