Essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.
Author(s): Steve Westbrook
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 225
Composition & Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
PART I. Defining Cases and Concepts: Copyright, Digital Ethics, and Composition Studies......Page 15
1. Property, Theft, Piracy: Rhetoric and Regulation in MGM Studios v. Grokster......Page 17
2. Fair Use and the Vulnerability of Criticism on the Internet......Page 39
3. “Some Rights Reserved”: Weblogs with Creative Commons Licenses......Page 58
4. In Defense of Obfuscation: Questioning Open Source and a New Perspective on Teaching Digital Literacy in the Writing Classroom......Page 76
PART I I. Teaching the Conflicts: Copyright Law in Pedagogical Theory and Practice......Page 99
5. A Refrain of Costly Fires: Visual Rhetoric, Writing Pedagogy,and Copyright Law......Page 101
6. Beyond the Wake-up Call: Learning What Students Know about Copyright......Page 122
7. Ideas Toward a Fair Use Heuristic: Visual Rhetoric and Composition......Page 141
8. Blogging Down: Copyright Law and Blogs in the Classroom......Page 162
PART I I I. Concluding Polemics: Changing the Future of Composition and Copyrigh......Page 181
9. The (Re)Birth of the Composer......Page 183
10. Own Your Rights: Know When Your University Can Claim Ownership of Your Work......Page 198
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 225
C......Page 229
H......Page 230
M......Page 231
S......Page 232
Y......Page 233
