More from the RIAA
InsideHigherEd.com reports that the music industry is engaging in something akin to preemptive strikes. The article Mysterious Multiplication of Copyright Complaints takes a look at the speculative...
View ArticleAPA promotes open-access (yay!) ... and charges authors $2500 each (boo!)
From the Chronicle -- an interesting power play for control over intellectual property:In what appears to be a new policy, the American Psychological Association will require authors who publish in its...
View ArticleTextbook Torrents
I thought some of you would be interested in this story about file sharing of PDFs of textbooks. I found the story on FARK, and while I know the comment thread is long, it's worth reading; it's...
View ArticleComputers and Composition Special Issue: Copyright, Culture, Creativity, and...
Copyright, Culture, Creativity, and the Commons special issue of Computers and Composition, volume 27 issue 3, September 2010 In 1998, Computers and Composition and Kairos both published special issues...
View ArticleASCAP Seeking Money from Members to Stop Creative Commons
Yes. As ridiculous as it sounds, it's true. Zeropaid reports that ASCAP is trying to raise money to fight Creative Commons, the EFF, and Public Knowledge. Here's a quote from the letter sent out to...
View ArticleFollow-up: ASCAP Seeking Money from Members to Stop Creative Commons
As a follow-up to my earlier blog post today, here's some additional coverage. EFF and Public Knowledge have responded to the letter. But even better is the transcript of a speech given a little over...
View ArticleMajor Intellectual Property Events of 2010 (So Far)
I want to try to think of as many possible "Top IP Developments of 2010" as possible while 2010 is still going on, so that I'll have a lot of topics to assign for the CCCC IP Annual. (Most people want...
View ArticleThe Copyright Principles Project: Directions for Reform
First time I've heard of The Copyright Principles Project. But their recommendation report for copyright reform (notably, Pamuel Samuelson is listed as lead author), The Copyright Principles Project:...
View ArticleHelpful Information about Open Textbooks
I ran across this interview with Nicole Allen, an open education activist, who updates Creative Commons on her work with open textbooks. There's also a link to a new report, A Cover to Cover Solution:...
View ArticleFree and Open Textbooks in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Below is my article for this year's CCCC-IP Annual. I refer to some exciting stuff going on in our field such as http://writingspaces.org/: The issue of access is one of the main reasons our field has...
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