Logie – Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates
Logie, John. Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion : Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates. Parlor Press, 2006. Print. Introduction: The Cat is Out of the Bag Early on L. notes that this book will consider the anti-piracy arguments of the content industry by analyzing the key terms and metaphors that underpin their claims (6). In addition, L. claims that he will “interrogate peer-to-peer enthusiasts’ various responses to these arguments,... Read More
Halbert – Resisting Intellectual Property Law
Halbert, Debora J. Resisting Intellectual Property Law. New York: Routledge, 2005. Print. Introduction Book Overview: Chapter 1: This chapter considers the public domain – it defines the original intent of the public domain before moving on to consider how it is “interwoven” with copyright law in order to point out how this concept serves the “public” as opposed to the “private.” By rejuvenating the... Read More
Logie – Parsing Codes: IP, TC, and the WWW
Logie, John. “Parsing Codes: Intellectual Property, Technical Communication, and the World Wide Web.” Technical Communication and the World Wide Web. Eds. Lipson, Carol and Michael Day. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005. 223-42. Print. L. begins by highlighting how the web and other digital networks have made work in technical communication fraught with the perils and possibilities of intellectual property. Because of their digitality... Read More
Reyman – Property, Theft, Piracy: Rhetoric and Regulation in MGM Studios v Grokster
“Introduction” Westbrook, Steve, ed. Composition & Copyright: Perspectives on Teaching, Textmaking, and Fair Use. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. When Westbrook started teaching out of graduate school he intended to create a writing program that attempted to collapse the binary between rhetoric and creative writing (poetics) by challenging the binary between written and digital composition (1). Yet, W. notes that... Read More
CCCC2011 Presentation
I have two different versions of this presentation. The first places a greater emphasis on the historical genesis of copyright. The second places a greater emphasis on the social nature of commons-based peer production. Enjoy! Read More
