Introduction

This webtext, reflecting on and celebrating Kairos' ten-year anniversary, seeks to highlight the major copyright cases that have impacted teachers of digital writing during the last ten years and illustrate how each case set up a rhetorical construct that allowed the next case to happen. I highlight the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to show how that law might impact our composing and publication practices. I discuss the failed Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) negotiations and suggest revisiting this important issue. And in light of these cases, I try to connect Kairos to ongoing intellectual property (IP) discussions and argue why this online journal is the place we should meet to address the issues of intellectual property that impact our practices as technorhetoricians--issues that impact and shape the infrastructural possibilities of writing. I also provide a list of references and a glossary, which I hope can be used as a resource to grapple with some of the legal terminology that continues to be incorporated in our everyday approach to examining the contexts in which we teach and write.