DeVoss and Porter – Why Napster Matters to Writing
DeVoss, Danielle Nicole, and James E. Porter. “Why Napster Matters to Writing: Filesharing as a New Ethic of Digital Delivery.” Computers and Composition 23 2 (2006): 178-210. Print. DeVoss and Porter push against traditional disciplinary understandings of authorship and ownership in this essay. Specifically, the authors argue that p2p file sharing in general – and Napster in particular – are representative of a new “digital ethic’... Read More
Shirky – File-Sharing Goes Social
Shirky, Clay. “File-Sharing Goes Social.” Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet.2/15/2010 (2003). <http://www.shirky.com/writings/file-sharing_social.html>. Shirky highlights the RIAA’s “Crush the Connectors” strategy in this article. Specifically Shirky notes how the disintegration of highly networked, multiply linked node systems via RIAA action will work to deter file sharing among groups; however, he also... Read More
Rajagopal and Bojin – Cons in the Panopticon: Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy
Rajagopal, Indhu and Nis Bojin. “Cons in the Panopticon: Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy.” First Monday 9.6 (2004). 2/15/2010 <http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1174/1094>. Rajagopal and Bojin argue that the internet is fast becoming a corporately controlled panopticon that regulates the social, economic, and political relationships between users and corporations. In response to the panopticonization... Read More
Hansmann and Santilli – Authors’ and Artists’ Moral Rights
Hansmann, Henry and Marina Santilli. “Authors’ and Artists’ Moral Rights: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis.” The Journal of Legal Studies 26 1 (1997): 95-143. Print. This article considers the European civil-law jurisdiction of “moral rights” and their recent adoption in the United States. Moral rights are essentially an artists’ – or deceased artists’ family’s – rights to works of art even after... Read More
WRT624 – Logie – The (Re)Birth of the Composer
Logie – “The (Re)Birth of the Composer” from Composition and Copyright Logie notes that composition is the antitheological activity par excellance because it dissolves the author into an accumulation of public ideas, interpretations and claims (176). In this sense, composition challenges God “and his hypostases – reason, science, law.” “Classic [humanist] criticism has obscured the networked composer in order to celebrate the Author:... Read More
