Why is everyone inside (and outside) of education suddenly so concerned about AI text generators like ChatGPT?  Central to developing an informed critical and theoretical stance on an issue like this one is a deep understanding of authorship and textual ownership. In Authorship, Ownership, Appropriation and the Remix we will consider how the boundaries of authorship are gatekept, maintained, or fluidly expanded as a wide range of texts are created, shared, owned, and exchanged through academic writing, through creative writing and artistic production, through business, and through everyday life. We’ll read and think about mixing and sampling, ghostwriting, co-authorship, plagiarism, human and AI writing support, and our experiences with text creation inside and outside of school. Throughout the semester we’ll consider the responsibility educators at all levels have for learning about the technological, ethical, and socio-cultural-historical questions informing the creation and sharing of texts.