Vie/ deWinter Article

This reading relates to our project on the history of copyright in many ways. For one, while researching our topic we immediately realized that since technology has become a staple in our society the laws abou copyright change constantly. The idea of a wiki really does make us question the values of authorship and the ways in which we see copyright. When there is more than one person constantly editing, commenting and changing work the concept of one author is impossible- which makes it complicated.
Vie and deWinter are right when they say students typically write knowing their audience is the professor, and because of that it seems like most of our writing is aimed at pleasing that particular professor. When writing on a wiki the public can read your ideas and comment upon them. I will admit that the only people to read my term papers are usually a few of my peers for editing, my professor, and if I choose to share, my parents. Wikis make that number of readers look ridiculous. While I don't like the idea of sharing my work with everyone, I do like the idea of getting multiple people's perspectives on things because it is so easy to forget other ways of thinking when you are engrossed in research.
I think the writers of this piece probably struggled with writing collaboratively because I imagine they had somewhat of the same problem we do when someone mentions writing something collaboratively. My first reaction was "What if my group steals my ideas, or worse, completely twists my idea to fit theirs? Where are the boundaries on change?"Everyone is different, and because of that everyone finds things they deem more important than others, so I wonder what their process of negotiation was and how that effected their writing.