The subject of authorship needs a multidisciplinary approach to unveil its complexity and to understand the discussions about how the digital age mobilizes new ways of dealing with intellectual property. Thus we must transpose the limits of information science and engage the key concepts of a number of other disciplines that pervade this issue. The article presents a review of the concept of authorship, underlining legal aspects of copyright and its relationship with the Internet. It also conducts a brief reflection on Information Science journals and how they address new opportunities for law-making as concerns emerging paradigm shifts caused by technology.