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==Philosophical views of the nature of authorship==
{{expand section|information about any theories of authorship other than postmodern ones. What do other philosophers think of authorship?|date=August 2021}}
The [[Statute of Anne]] in 1710 set a legal precedent which laid the foundations of copyright, further establishing an author as the sole creator of a literary work. While this legislation acknowledged that an author’s words were their [[Intellectual property]], it in no way protected that author's ideas. For example, one writer could legally copy another writer’s plot exactly, as long as the words were not copied verbatim. In other words, the Statue of Anne protected an author's form of expression but not the thoughts behind their words.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sutherland |first=John |title=A little history of literature |date=2014 |publisher=Yale Univ. Press |year= |isbn=978-0-300-20531-2 |edition=1. publ. in paperback |location=New Haven, Conn. |pages=72-73}}</ref>[[File:James Joyce by Alex Ehrenzweig, 1915 cropped.jpg|thumb|227x227px|[[James Joyce]] was a prominent Irish novelist, poet and literary critic during the 20th century.]]
In literary theory, critics find complications in the term ''author'' beyond what constitutes authorship in a legal setting. In the wake of [[postmodern literature]], critics such as [[Roland Barthes]] and [[Michel Foucault]] have examined the role and relevance of authorship to the meaning or interpretation of a literary text.
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