Edits from CCCC-IP Caucus Members Due: May 1
Final Proposal Due: May 7, 2018
Caucus Members,
Please review the proposal below and do the following:
1) Let me know your opinion of the breakdown of the roundtable categories, especially:
a) whether you would serve as a roundtable leader for the subject that I assigned to you;
b) whether you would rather serve on a different roundtable as a roundtable leader; and
c) that you are willing/able to serve as that roundtable leader by adding your name and contact information and/or confirming or changing what I already have included for you;
2) Edit the roundtable descriptions to reflect how you would like to shape the discussion; and
3) Propose new roundtables, suggest additional roundtables, combine roundtables, and/or recommend editing or omitting any roundtables.
PROPOSAL FOR CCCC-IP Caucus Annual Business Meeting
to be held Wednesday, March 13, 2019 from 2 p.m. until 5:30 p.m.
Type of Session: Standing Group/Special Interest Group
Proposal Level: All
Session Title: CCCC Intellectual Property in Composition Studies Standing Group Business Meeting
Word count limit for the description: 1000
The Caucus on Intellectual Property in Composition Studies (CCCC-IP) invites to its annual meeting composition scholars and teachers who are concerned with issues of authorship, copyright, fair use, remix, access, and the ownership and use of intellectual property (IP). Since it began in 1994, the Caucus has sponsored explorations of IP issues pertinent to teachers, scholars, and students in the field.
At this practical and action-focused annual meeting, the Caucus will discuss the current status of teaching and research of authorship, copyright, and intellectual property in the field of rhetoric and composition. Participants will meet in roundtables to discuss topics such as remix and participatory culture, plagiarism and authorship, students’ rights to their intellectual property, open access and open source publishing, and best practices in teaching students and instructors about IP. Roundtable leaders provide overviews of their topics, and participants then create action plans and identify and contribute resources for political, professional, scholarly, and pedagogical use. This year, attendees will particpate in roundtables to respond to four areas of timely concern: 1) emerging legal and legislative developments; students’ rights to their own intellectual property; 3) course development in intellectual property/remix; and 4) emerging issues in intellectual property, such as bot-authors and data ownership. Following the roundtable workshops, participants reconvene to share their plans and recommend future action for the coming year. The business meeting will also discuss the progress of publishing a collection of key IP developments within the last 10-15 years and submission of a NCTE-sponsored grant for an IP-related research project. The Caucus also provides mentoring opportunities for junior scholars and graduate students.
Clusters
Please select the most appropriate cluster for your proposal from the list below. Your proposal will be reviewed according to the cluster.
Participant Information
Senior Chair: Wendy Warren Austin, Lakeland Community College, waus...@lakelandcc.edu, 724-255-6536
Junior Chair: Lanette Cadle, Missouri State University, LLC...@MissouriState.edu
Roundtable 1: Legal and Legislative Developments
Roundtable Leaders:
1) Tyanna Herrington, Georgia Tech University, t...@gatech.edu, 254-541-6450
2) Kim Gainer, Radford University, kga...@radford.edu, 540-831-5154
3) Laurie Cubbison, Radford University, lcub...@radford.edu, 540-831-6421
4) Jeff Galin, Florida Atlantic University,
This roundtable will host a discussion of the previous year’s legal and legislative IP developments as they affect students and educators. As of April 23, 2018, the U.S. net neutrality repeal took effect, creating an environment that could affect students, educational institutions, researchers, and lower-income residents. Additionally, the outcome of court cases both in the U.S. and abroad may have an impact on the educational community. Discussion will revolve around approaches to enable students and teachers to make appropriate use of copyrighted material in legitimate ways as they move toward reaching their educational goals.
Roundtable 2: Teaching about Intellectual Property and Students’ IP Rights
Roundtable Leaders
1) Lanette Cadle, Missouri State University, lca...@msu.edu,
2) Alex Nielsen, Old Dominion University, anie...@odu.edu, 419-340-6743
This roundtable will focus on student IP ownership, both in and out of the classroom, how scholars and teachers can inform students about (and advocate for) their rights as content creators, remixers, and critics. Possible topics of discussion will include sharing pedagogical strategies, determining best practices for online production and/or publication of assignments, and assessing student collaborative work when ownership is shared.
Roundtable 3: Course Development in Intellectual Property/Remix
Roundtable Leaders
1) Mike Edwards, Washing State University, mike.e...@wsu.edu
2) Jessica Reyman, Illinois State University,
This roundtable will discuss pedagogical approaches to IP issues, particularly in designing and delivering upper division and graduate courses that focus on IP issues in composition. Participants will consider what instructors need to cover, what students need to know about IP from a variety of perspectives, including considerations of protecting cultural heritage and indigenous IP, how IP concerns affect student professionalization and post-graduate work, and how students can contribute to the productive and ethical valuation and circulation of various forms of IP.
Roundtable 4: Ongoing Research Projects in Intellectual Property
Roundtable leaders:
This roundtable will discuss the progress of their ongoing research project and ways that their research contributes to the conversations about authorship and intellectual property, and leaders will suggest how other researchers might advance their own projects to contribute to a deeper understanding of intellectual property issues.
Roundtable 5: Emerging Issues in Intellectual Property: Bot-Authors, Manifestos, and Data Ownership
1) Tim Amidon, Colorado State University, ami...@gmail.com, 970-491-6428
2) Kyle Stedman, Rockford University, kste...@rockford.edu, 815-394-5048
3) Danielle Nicole DeVoss, Michigan State University,
This roundtable will discuss emerging issues in intellectual property, such as bots as authors, machine-written novels, how practices align with the sustainability of authorship as a construct, and data ownership issues. Discussion will include how the digital humanities field intersects with composition issues especially with copyright and IP issues, what questions scholars new-to-IP issues are most interested in addressing, and how the IP-Caucus can best address the needs and questions of its incoming membership.