[ccccip] CCCC-IP Annual: Top Intellectual Property Developments of 2007

[Clancy Ratliff]

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'd like to extend a big thanks to the contributors. Hopefully this
will serve as a good promotional and recruitment publication for the
caucus. See you there.

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.

-- 
Clancy Ratliff
Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing
Department of English
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
http://culturecat.net/