Thanks to the hard work of all of those who have worked on this document in one form or another over the last few years, I am happy to announce that at the business meeting on Saturday morning at CCCC that the members voted to approve a formal resolution regarding open source software use. An official copy should be posted to the CCCC website sometime in the coming weeks. In the meantime, those wishing to see the draft version which was submitted to CCCC can view it here.

I mentioned in the caucus meeting today that I put together a document promoting the IP-themed sessions at the conference this year, as John Logie has done in the past, but that I wasn't passing it out because it was 22 pages long. Instead, I've uploaded it here so that you can, hopefully, check it out in time to attend some of these:

http://ccccip.org/files/CCCCsessionsIP.pdf

http://ccccip.org/files/CCCCsessionsIP.odt

I am pleased to announce the publication of the third CCCC-IP Annual. Below I have posted the table of contents and the introduction. The html version of the collection isn't live yet, but I have attached PDF and .odt versions of the file to this post. They are available for download here:

http://ccccip.org/files/TopIP2007Collection_0.odt

http://ccccip.org/files/TopIP2007Collection_0.pdf

Introduction

Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

McLean Students File Suit Against Turnitin.com: Useful Tool or Instrument of Tyranny?

Traci Zimmerman (Pipkins), James Madison University

The Importance of Understanding and Utilizing Fair Use in Educational Contexts: A Study on Media Literacy and Copyright Confusion

Martine Courant Rife, Lansing Community College and Michigan State University

The National Institutes of Health Open Access Mandate: Public Access for Public Funding

Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

"Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video"

Laurie Cubbison, Radford University

One Laptop Per Child Program Threatens Dominance of Intel and Microsoft

Kim Dian Gainer, Radford University

Bosch v Ball-Kell: Faculty May Have Lost Control Over Their Teaching Materials

Jeff Galin, Florida Atlantic University

Introduction

Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Co-Chair, 2008 CCCC Intellectual Property Caucus

The year 2007 carried quite a few key developments for those who follow issues and debates related to copyright and intellectual property. For the third year running, then, the CCCC Intellectual Property Committee is pleased to publish this annual report in the service of our first goal, to “keep the CCCC and NCTE memberships informed about intellectual property developments, through reports in the CCCC newsletter and in other NCTE and CCCC forums.”

In assuming the editorship of this year's collection, I have chosen to implement two changes which I believe embody the values of the Caucus and the IP Committee. First, I have licensed the collection under a Creative Commons license. This license allows readers to use the collection beyond the boundaries of fair use, provided the collection is not used for commercial purposes, the authors of the articles are credited, and no derivative works are made. One exception to the condition regarding derivative works concerns modifications for purposes of accessibility. Readers can, for example, create an audio recording of the collection or increase and change the font for the visually impaired. The main purpose for the Creative Commons license is to enable cross-publishing of the collection in a variety of online publication venues. I also hope that readers find the collection useful for the classroom. This collection may be reprinted in course packs or archived on course web sites under the terms of the Creative Commons license.

The second change I have made is to make the collection available in Open Document Format. In the past, the collection has been published in html and pdf format, as it is this year, but I am also publishing it as an .odt file, which can be opened in at least two open source word processing programs: OpenOffice and NeoOffice. I am uploading the file in .odt format as a public acknowledgment of the IP Caucus's growing awareness of software as intellectual work and open source software as intellectual work that is free and open for all to use and build upon.

The Intellectual Property Caucus of the Conference on College Composition and Communication would like to invite all CCCC attendees to participate in this year's caucus event:

View the agenda.

At this year's CCCC, CCCC-IP, the CCCC IP Comitteee, and the 7C's passed the Open Source Resolution Statement which grew from a Town Hall conversation during Computers and Writing 2005.

Because it was too late to enter it through the formal resolution process, Michael Day and John Logie presented a version of this statement as a Sense of the House Motion during the Saturday CCCC Business Meeting. Assisted by supportive comments from Cindy Selfe during discussion, the motion was passed. Following is the text of the motion:

I have developed a timeline to trace the open access archive movment. It is a beginning on which I'd like to build. I've also created an AJAX widget that presents the timeline on the web based on work done by the good folks at MIT. Take a look at www.fau.edu/WAC/timeline.html. If you send annotated links to me, I'll continue to update the timeline.

Visit MIT's site for the timeline at Simile Timeline http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/.

I have developed a timeline to trace the open access archive movment. It is a beginning on which I'd like to build. I've also created an AJAX widget that presents the timeline on the web based on work done by the good folks at MIT. Take a look at www.fau.edu/WAC/timeline/timeline.html. I'll have an updated version available later today. I'll also post the MS Word version of the timeline here later today.

Visit MIT's site for the timeline at Simile Timeline http://ei.cs.vt.edu/book/chap1/web_hist.html.