Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law
http://cms.mit.edu/news/2009/03/podcast_authorship_appropriati.php

Bryant, John and Wendy Seltzer
MIT
2009

Abstract:

A fluid text is any work that exists in multiple versions. What are the ethics and legality in the creation, sharing, and ownership of textual versions? What are the boundaries of textual appropriation? How does technology abet appropriation; how might it assist in the useful designation of boundaries? Is the law keeping up?