This perhaps helps with issues being currently discussed here.

Eventuallly scholars and other groups affected by the idiotic IP laws
will hae to discover collective ways to make those laws
coutner-productive to the corporate interests who pushed them throug
Congress. Consumers of popular music are rapidly developing innumerable
ways to punish record companies for their intransigence on these
issues.

Carrol

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Subject: Top Intellectual Property Developments of 2007
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:29:44 -0500
From: "Cheryl E. Ball" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Cheryl E. Ball" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]

For those of you interested in intellectual property issues, problems
with software such as Turnitin.com, and copyright, I am forwarding this
email from the co-chair of the Intellectual Propety Caucus of the
Conference on College Composition and Communication.

This caucus also worked with the 7Cs [computers in composition cmte] to
put forward a resolution supporting the use of open-source software in
writing instruction. The writing labs used for 101 next year will have
many open-source and freeware computing options, thanks to Randy Marrs.
The resolution, if accepted at the upcoming CCCC, will be posted on
their website shortly.

Best, Cheryl.

Begin forwarded message:


From: Clancy Ratliff <[log in to unmask]>
Date: March 26, 2008 8:53:58 PM CDT
To: Writing Program Administration <[log in to unmask]>,
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Subject: [techrhet] CCCC-IP Annual: Top Intellectual Property
Developments of 2007
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]

Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce the publication of the third CCCC-IP Annual.
Below I have provided the table of contents and the introduction. The
html version of the collection isn't live yet, but I have posted the
collection to the CCCC-IP site in PDF and .odt format. They are
available for download here:

http://ccccip.org/files/TopIP2007Collection.odt

http://ccccip.org/files/TopIP2007Collection.pdf

I hope to see you all at the caucus at 4Cs on Wednesday afternoon.
Remember, attendance and participation in the caucus are absolutely
free.

Clancy



Introduction

Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

McLean Students File Suit Against Turnitin.com: Useful Tool or
Instrument of Tyranny?

Traci Zimmerman (Pipkins), James Madison University

The Importance of Understanding and Utilizing Fair Use in Educational
Contexts: A Study on Media Literacy and Copyright Confusion

Martine Courant Rife, Lansing Community College and Michigan State
University

The National Institutes of Health Open Access Mandate: Public Access for
Public Funding

Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

"Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated
Video"

Laurie Cubbison, Radford University

One Laptop Per Child Program Threatens Dominance of Intel and Microsoft

Kim Dian Gainer, Radford University

Introduction

Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Co-Chair, 2008 CCCC Intellectual Property Caucus

The year 2007 carried quite a few key developments for those who follow
issues and debates related to copyright and intellectual property. For
the third year running, then, the CCCC Intellectual Property Committee
is pleased to publish this annual report in the service of our first
goal, to "keep the CCCC and NCTE memberships informed about intellectual
property developments, through reports in the CCCC newsletter and in
other NCTE and CCCC forums."

In assuming the editorship of this year's collection, I have chosen to
implement two changes which I believe embody the values of the Caucus
and the IP Committee. First, I have licensed the collection under a
Creative Commons license. This license allows readers to use the
collection beyond the boundaries of fair use, provided the collection is
not used for commercial purposes, the authors of the articles are
credited, and no derivative works are made. One exception to the
condition regarding derivative works concerns modifications for purposes
of accessibility. Readers can, for example, create an audio recording of
the collection or increase and change the font for the visually
impaired. The main purpose for the Creative Commons license is to enable
cross-publishing of the collection in a variety of online publication
venues. I also hope that readers find the collection useful for the
classroom. This collection may be reprinted in course packs or archived
on course web sites under the terms of the Creative Commons license.

The second change I have made is to make the collection available in
Open Document Format. In the past, the collection has been published in
html and pdf format, as it is this year, but I am also publishing it as
an .odt file, which can be opened in at least two open source word
processing programs: OpenOffice and NeoOffice. I am uploading the file
in .odt format as a public acknowledgment of the IP Caucus's growing
awareness of software as intellectual work and open source software as
intellectual work that is free and open for all to use and build upon.


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Clancy Ratliff Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing
Department of English University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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