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Social & Legal Studies | 2015

Copyright and Mass Social Authorship A Case Study of the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Elena Cooper

Social authorship ventures involving masses of volunteers like Wikipedia are thought to be a phenomenon enabled by digital technology, presenting new challenges for copyright law. By contrast, the case study explored in this article uncovers copyright issues considered in relation to a 19th-century social authorship precedent: the 70-year process of compiling the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (NED) instigated by the not-for-profit Philological Society in 1858, which involved thousands of casually organized volunteer readers and subeditors. Drawing on extensive original archival research, the article uses the case study as a means of critically reflecting on the claims of existing interdisciplinary literature concerning copyright and ‘authorship’; unlike the claims of the so-called Romanticism thesis, the article argues that copyright law supported an understanding of NED authorship as collaborative and democratic. Further, in uncovering the practical solutions, which lawyers considered in debating issues relating to title and rights clearance, the article uses the 19th-century experience as a vantage point for considering how these issues are approached today; despite the very different context, the copyright problems and solutions debated in the 19th century demonstrate remarkable continuity with those considered in relation to social authorship projects today.


Law and Philosophy | 2015

Authorship, aesthetics and the artworld: reforming copyright’s joint authorship doctrine

Laura Biron; Elena Cooper


Archive | 2018

Photographic copyright and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in historical perspective

Elena Cooper; Sheona Burrow


Archive | 2018

Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image

Elena Cooper


Archive | 2017

R v. Johnstone

Elena Cooper


Archive | 2016

What is the Point of Copyright History

Ronan Deazley; Elena Cooper


Archive | 2016

What is the Point of Copyright History?: Reflections on Copyright at Common law in 1774 by H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui

Ronan Deazley; Elena Cooper


Archive | 2016

Interrogating copyright history

Elena Cooper; Ronan Deazley


Archive | 2016

We are experienced! Jimi Hendrix in historical perspective

Elena Cooper


Archive | 2015

Joint authorship and copyright in comparative perspective: the emergence of divergence in the UK and USA

Elena Cooper

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