Just one more point before I go silent. I find it
interesting that the use of open source word
processing programs (Open Document Format) is used as
an example of resistance to IP laws. Word processing
is at least 35 years old. Patents on these techniques
would have been taken out in the early days and would
now be long expired. IP laws are simply irrelevant to
the whole issue of word processing.

Tom Gray

--- Tom Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This whole software intellectual property
> controversy
> is quite interesting. Its prime advocates are Cisco
> and Microsoft who are using it as a means of
> maintaining their market dominance. Innovators will
> not be able to compete since their ideas (i.e. their
> intellectual property) will simply be appropriated
> by
> the market dominant players. Neither Cisco or
> Microsoft are innovators or make much use of IP
> laws.
> They enforce their market dominance in other ways.
> One
> of which is to use other people’s IP.
> 
> IP laws have not been pushed through by corporate
> interests since these IP laws are counter-productive
> to their interests. By protecting innovators, these
> laws facilitate the market disruption which works
> against the interest of market-dominant players.
> These
> players may use their market power to prevent
> competition in their own markets but innovation
> changes markets. AT&T used its government-enforced
> monopoly power to prevent competition in the
> communications market. Along came a simple player
> who
> made an acoustic modem. AT&T's monopolistic actions
> produced the Carterfone decision which unleashed the
> whole gamut of digital innovation which includes the
> web and the Internet. AT&T intended to preserve its
> monopoly position by preventing the use of digital
> technology in the communications network. With
> Carterfone, they were unable to do this. 
> 
> IP laws work against the effort of market-dominant
> companies to stifle innovation. 
> 
> Tom Gray
> 
> 
> 
> --- Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > 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]>,
> > [log in to unmask]
> > 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."
> > 
> 
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