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Description: and Google just sitting there and running the numbers. So there's this collective decision-making that's going on. This page is effectively, collectively authored by the Web, and Google is just helping us kind of to put the authorship in one kind of coherent place.

Mary Shelley

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

English Author

Eavan Boland

When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?

Irish Poet

Jaron Lanier

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.

American Artist

Kate Herron

I just didn't know that you could have a voice and an authorship over a film, which probably sounds a bit silly. But I just hadn't really thought about films in that way.

Mark Rylance

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

English Actor

Nina Jacobson

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

American Businesswoman

P. J. O'Rourke

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

American Comedian

George Sand

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

French Novelist

Jonathan Ive

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

English Designer

George Wald

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

American Scientist

Authorship can imply a contentious claim over who created a work when there's a dispute.

Ownership Controversy

Pointing out incorrect authorship helps credit the rightful creator.

Misattribution Alert

In historical contexts, authorship can be uncertain or disputed over time.

Historical Authorship

Authorship can refer to the career path and development of writers.

Career Journey

It also denotes one's identity and role in the professional world of writing.

Professional Identity

Authorship emphasizes the creative journey of bringing an idea to fruition.

Creative Process

Determining authorship is crucial in art for attribution and scholarly study.

Artistic Attribution

 and Google just sitting there and running the numbers. So there's this collective decision-making that's going on. This page is effectively, collectively authored by the Web, and Google is just helping us kind of to put the authorship in one kind of coherent place.

Steven Johnson: The Web...

 formalized a method known as stylometry, applying this knowledge to investigate questions of literary authorship. So how does stylometry work? The idea is that each writer's style has certain characteristics that remain fairly uniform among individual works.

Did Shakespeare write...

 This trade that lot of people of color really started in and served in, but the minute it became a profession didn't fit into anymore, can really take back its authorship. That's the intent. And that takes time.

Authorship

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