The anecdote of your white paper hits on what I think is the real upheaval that arrives with web 2.0ish technologies: the decentralization of authorship. Of course, people have always written in communities, and to that extent individual authorship and ownership of texts has never been entirely clear-cut. But the rise of explicitly collaborative forms of writing – and especially the espousal of these forms in classroom settings, where the next generation of writers is being trained – puts this issue front-and-center. I’d posit that the reason why you weren’t comfortable answer the question of ownership of the white paper is because there’s a sense in which it’s literally in flux. Accepting and embracing this is a very strange experience.