2016 Articles

The Evolution of Authorship: Work Made by Code

Bridy, Annemarie

Hi, it’s great to be here. I want to thank Jane and June for the invitation and for what’s turning out to be a really wonderful collection of comments and thoughts. When I first started thinking about the problem that computer authors might present for copyright law, I thought I was thinking about a uniquely twenty-first century problem. As it turns out, though, computer authorship is sort of an old problem for copyright law, with a history that goes back to the early days of computing.