The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam University Press, 2014) is a collection of essays available openly on a CC-BY-NC-ND licence that represent some of the findings from the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) funded collaboration between CIPIL, the University of Bergen and the University of Amsterdam. The collection contains essays by the two Cambridge post-docs on the project, philosopher Dr Laura Biron (now the University of Kent) and legal historian Dr Elena Cooper (now CREATe, University of Glasgow, and still at Trinity Hall and CIPIL).
Dr Biron considers the work of authorship from the perspective of the existing philosophical literature on the justification of copyright (labour, personality and communication theories) and illustrates how these differing approaches to authorship can be applied to issues of collaborative authorship. Dr Cooper describes the results of empirical work she undertook in relation to digital artists and poets in order to discover whether the digital communications environment has transformed participants' conceptions of authorship. There is also one chapter jointly authored by Lionel Bently and Laura Biron which examines discontinuities between copyright law's allocation of 'authorship' status, and practices in various fields (conceptual art, scientific authorship etc), before exploring whether closer alignment might be possible. The chief editor, Professor Mireille van Eechoud, from IViR at the University of Amsterdam, was a Faculty visitor during much of the project.
Details of the book can be found here: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ot6poAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y