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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.
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:
John Logie began the CCCC Intellectual Property Caucus with a tribute to Candace Spigelman, co-chair of the Caucus, who passed away last year. Candace never lost sight of students in the process of talking about rhetoric and intellectual property. Institutions are here for the benefit of students. He set up a Candace Spigelman Memorial Fund, which will benefit the Caucus. Directions on how to contribute to the fund will be on the web site soon. Then he reviewed the MGM v. Grokster case and explained why we, as rhetoricians, should take an interest in it. He held up two sheets of paper, one in each hand, that said, "THE INTERNET IS A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK." The Grokster case, he argued, represents the threat of suppressing technologies that merely have the potential to be used for copyright infringement. Jeff Galin (I think) posed these questions: Can we engage our students to get active in this as well? Can we imagine ways that free use and fair use might intersect? What roles are we going to play to challenge Congress and the entertainment industry?