Overview

This title offers essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.

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Author:   Steve Westbrook ,  Steve Westbrook
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781438425917

ISBN 10:   1438425910
Pages:   231
Publication Date:   09 April 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Steve Westbrook I Defining Cases and Contexts: Copyright, Digital Ethics, and Composition Studies 1. Property, Theft, Piracy: Rhetoric and Regulation in MGM Studios v. Grokster Jessica Reyman 2. Fair Use and the Vulnerability of Criticism on the Internet Sohui Lee 3. ""Some Rights Reserved"": Weblogs with Creative Commons Licenses Clancy Ratliff 4. In Defense of Obfuscation: Questioning Open Source and a New Perspective on Teaching Digital Literacy in the Writing Classroom Brian D. Ballentine II Teaching the Conflicts: Copyright Law in Pedagogical Theory and Practice 5. A Refrain of Costly Fires: Visual Rhetoric, Writing Pedagogy, and Copyright Law Steve Westbrook 6. Beyond the Wake-up Call: Learning What Students Know about Copyright Lisa Dush 7. Ideas Toward a Fair Use Heuristic: Visual Rhetoric and Compositiont Martine Courant Rife 8. Blogging Down: Copyright Law and Blogs in the Classroom TyAnna K. Herrington III Concluding Polemics: Changing the Future of Composition and Copyright 9. The (Re)Birth of the Composer John Logie 10. Own Your Rights: Know When Your University Can Claim Ownership of Your Work Jeffrey R. Galin List of Contributors Index"

Reviews

...the thoroughness with which background is established in each essay is meritorious ... and the individual contributors deserve praise for their insights. - Issues in Writin ...this well-conceptualized and interesting book should be read not only by composition teachers, communication scholars, and others who aspire to teach rhetoric to increasingly digitally savvy students but also by any composer of texts in our new electronic world. - Rhetoric Review

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Steve Westbrook is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Fullerton.

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