Copyright and Collective Authorship
Locating the Authors of Collaborative Work
Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law Series

As technology makes it easier for people to work together, large-scale collaboration is becoming increasingly prevalent. In this context, the question of how to determine authorship ? and hence ownership - of copyright in collaborative works is an important question to which current copyright law fails to provide a coherent or consistent answer. In Copyright and Collective Authorship, Daniela Simone engages with the problem of how to determine the authorship of highly collaborative works. Employing insights from the ways in which collaborators understand and regulate issues of authorship, the book argues that a recalibration of copyright law is necessary, proposing an inclusive and contextual approach to joint authorship that is true to the legal concept of authorship but is also more aligned with creative reality.

1. Copyright law and collective authorship; 2. Authorship and joint authorship; 3. Wikipedia; 4. Australian Indigenous art; 5. Scientific collaborations; 6. Film; 7. Characteristics of collective authorship and the role of copyright law; 8. An inclusive, contextual approach to the joint authorship test.

Daniela Simone is a Lecturer in Law at University College London, where she is also a Co-Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law. Dr Simone holds BC.L., M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from the University of Oxford. She was awarded a B.A./LL.B. (Hons I) degree from the University of Sydney, was admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and worked as a lawyer for a global commercial law firm in Sydney.