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What is Authorship?

 

According to Carolyn Guertin, author of Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art, authorship means the following things:

 

“a declaration of property and an economic claim”

~ Guertin p 1

 

A Pre-nineteenth century definition

“a collective exercise [which] Even in our contemporary world [includes] editors, publishers, critics, mentors, literary muses, and collaborators”

~ Guertin p 2

 

“According to Foucault, [authorship is] a principle of ownership – or possessive individualism – in the Eighteenth century with the arrival of copyright law”

 ~ Guertin p 2

 

Defines the author “as the ‘originator and therefore the owner of a special kind of commodity, the work’”

~ Authors and Owners by Mark Rose qtd. in Guertin p 3

 

The Most Comprehensive Definition

“a collaborative zone where it is possible to speak of resistance, appropriation, negotiation, contingency, translation, otherness, commonalities [and] allows ambiguity, complexity, and hybridity to play out within new aesthetics”

~ Guertin p 7

 

 

So what does this mean for manga?

Manga authorship is the aesthetically and conceptually unique identity a mangaka develops, through a collaborative effort with their editor(s) and publisher(s), which exercises their right to free expression without violating any copyright law.

 

Please proceed to the Publisher & Editor Issues page.

CONTACT ME

 

If you wish to discuss the context of this website in further detail, please feel free to email me.

Class Assignment

 

Hello! My name is Jelissa White. I am a student of the University of South Florida majoring in Professional Writing, Rhetoric & Technology, also known as PTWR. This is a project for my Advanced Composition class, by no means is this a website for any commercial purposes. I am simply an avid manga fan willing to incorporate the talk of these Japanese comics into anything and everything I can.

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