Call for Presenters for a Saturday College Composition and Communication Conference-Intellectual Property Workshop, 2005
The CCCC-Caucus on Intellectual Property invites proposals for roundtable presentations relating to issues of intellectual property, copyright law, fair use, authorship and ownership, and other related topics for a workshop, Intellectual Property in Composition Studies, to be held at the 4Cs in March 2005. Please send a 50-word abstract describing your proposed 6-8 minute presentation by May 1st to Candace Spigelman at cxs11@psu.edu.
Workshop presentations are exempt from CCCC restrictions on multiple submissions. Suggested topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
--University IP contracts: who owns your work?
--When do teaching materials become joint creator/university works?
--Fair use in digital environments.
--Erosion of fair use for scholarly work
--Negotiating the TEACH Act for distance education.
--What determines “extra-ordinary support” for distance education?
--Should “regular instructional works” be treated as equivalent to traditional works of scholarship?
--How can we make the best of online electronic reserves for our classes?
--Alternative licensing models for scholarly authors.
--Consulting versus publishing: how building a useful body of creative commons/open source content can lead to consulting, paid workshops, and other professional opportunities.
--Student IP/privacy and the data-based classroom: what a writing teacher should know.
--Teaching about IP: incorporating discussions of IP in comp or tech writing classrooms.
--How plagiarism is and is not an IP issue.
--Why isn't most faculty work considered “work for hire”?
Candace Spigelman, Ph.D.
Department of English
Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College
(610) 396-6184
cxs11@psu.edu
