Since the early years of the Information
Society, legal policymakers and scholars alike have noted the ways in which digitally-mediated creative practices might
challenge copyright law’s concept of ‘authorship’.
Nowadays
it is very difficult to identify the status of author in law. Authorship of computer programs merits
close attention, because it illustrates the relationship between the ideas of authorship
(in general) in law and in the ‘digital arts’.