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<div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: large; "><b><br></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: large; "><b><font color="#000000">Shun-Ling Chen<br></font></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><i><font color="#000000">Harvard Law School</font></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><font color="#000000"><br></font></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: small; "><font color="#000000">on</font></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: large; "><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="#000000">Collaborative Authorship, from Folklore to Wikiborg</font></span></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">Monday, October 25th</font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106</font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align: center; ">
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<div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">Lunch is provided if you RSVP.</font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">Please RSVP to </font><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "><font color="#000000"><span class="il">sts</span>@hks.harvard.edu</font></a><font color="#000000"> by Thursday, October 21th.</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b><font color="#000000">Abstract: </font></b><font color="#000000">Is collaboration an exception or the rule in the production of cultural resources? While the US courts recognize the prevalence of collaboration in cultural activities, they consistently provide a narrow interpretation of the “joint work” clause in Copyright law. This project first identifies the current legal standards for “joint authorship” and asks what the underlying collective moral choices are. I then contrast the legal doctrine with two kinds of massive and open-ended collaborations: folklore (in particular, indigenous songs) and the “wikiborg” (in particular, Wikipedia and its sister projects). Each community has communal norms and practices that reflect their distinct collective moral choices. As these communities are part of the larger society, at times their normative systems may conflict with the institutionalized legal system. I review instances where communal norms are defended against appropriation by outsiders and against individual members' private property claims.<br>
</font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b><font color="#000000">Biography: </font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Shun-ling Chen is an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. The subject of this paper will be further developed in her dissertation, which is on the one hand a critique of US copyright law and on the other hand a study of how norms are formed and transformed in self-organizing collaborative communities. Portions of her dissertation work have been published as “To Surpass or to Conform: What are Public Licenses For?” and “Wikipedia: A Republic of Science Democratized”. She was a founding project co-lead of Creative Commons Taiwan and was an intern at the Wikimedia Foundation. </font></div>
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