What Matters Who Writes?
What Matters Who Responds?
Andrea Lunsford, Rebecca Rickly, Michael Salvo,
and Susan West
Since I gave this presentation, I have been at work with a
number of others in our field to build up the CCCC Caucus on
Intellectual Property listserv. If you would like to subscribe
to this list, contact Jim Porter and
ask to be added to the listserv. This group will hold its
third meeting at the CCCC meeting in Milwaukee in March, and
has recently been instrumental in getting CCCC, NCTE, and MLA
to sign on to the "Digital Future Coalition," a group of
lawyers, librarians, and scholars in a number of fields who
are concerned that copyright laws have tilted so dramaticaIly
in favor of the "creator" that they leave the public domain or
the public good empty-handed. Wow, what a mixed mataphor! At
any rate, the US Constitution says that copyright exists to
create incentives for people to create works so that these
works can contribute to the public good. The second part of
the equation has, today, been practically forgotten. Every
teacher reading this hypertext should find out about the
legislation now pending in Congress--legislation that
would extend copyright still another twenty years and that
would put still more limits on what should, in my opinion,
be "free" information.
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Postmodern (un)grounding *
Collaboration *
Copy(w)right/Ownership *
Possible Futures
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Conclusions