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
Ridolfo and Rife – Rhetorical Velocity and Copyright
Ridolfo, Jim and Martine Courant Rife. “Rhetorical Velocity and Copyright: A Case Study on the Strategies of Rhetorical Delivery” in Copy(write): IP in the Writing Classroom. Eds. Rife, Martine, Danielle Nicole DeVoss, and Shaun Slattery. 2011. In this article R/R consider a student photo taken in 2005 that was later remixed and reused by her university in 2006,7,8,&9 in order to consider questions about rhetorical delivery, rhetorical... Read More
Hardin – The Tragedy of the Commons
Hardin, Garrett. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science. 12/13/1968. Print. Hardin’s essay centers around issues that have “no technical solution.” In other words, he wants to address the commons as an issue that must be involved in human values or ideas of human morality. Hardin is pushing back against the “invisible hand” philosophy of Adam Smith in this piece asking whether individuals will – by acting in their own self-interest... Read More
Cohen – Copyright, Commodification, and Culture: Locating the Public Domain
Cohen, Julie. “Copyright, Commodification, and Culture: Locating the Public Domain.” The Future of the Public Domain : Identifying the Commons in Information Law. Eds. Lucie M Guibault and C. R. Hugenholtz. Information Law Series. Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International: Frederick, Md., 2006. Print. This article understands that there are two sides to the copyright argument: copyleftists say that copyright threatens the public... Read More
