[LINK] A bizarre twist on a twist - unreal online persona hi-jacked

[Jan Whitaker]

At 02:52 PM 18/04/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>When ProfHacker creates a fictional story on-line and then others add to
>it, seemingly done in ProfHacker's name, who owns what?
>
>Ownership in the digital universe is problematic, to say the least.

I think that's what a mash-up is -- multiple creators in a digital 
environment. But you could ask the same question of a standard news 
article with multiple editors between the original journo and the 
final result. I doubt very much if there are many pure single author 
situations any more, which is why ownership of copy is signed over to 
the masthead publisher.

Check out this newly released set of guidelines around digital 
resources. You'll note mention of acknowledgement of a range of 
people, not just the traditional single/joint authorship. Multi-media 
also comes into this, usually known of course.

http://www.mla.org/resources/documents/rep_it/web_guidelines

Jan



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