This is the first empirical, mixed-methods study of copyright
issues that speaks to writing specialists and legal scholars about
the complicated intersections of rhetoric, technology, copyright
law, and writing for the Internet. Martine Courant Rife opens up
new conversations about how invention and copyright work together
in the composing process for digital writers and how this
relationship is central to contemporary issues in composition
pedagogy and curriculum.
In this era of digital writing and publishing, composition and
legal scholars have identified various problems with writers'
processes and the law's construction of textual ownership, such as
issues of appropriation, infringement, and fair use within academic
and online contexts." Invention, Copyright, and Digital Writing"
unpacks digital writers' complex perceptions of copyright,
revealing how it influences what they choose to write and how it
complicates their work. Rife uses quantitative and qualitative
approaches and focuses on writing as a tool and a
technology-mediated activity, arguing the copyright problem is
about not law but invention and the attendant issues of
authorship.
Looking at copyright and writing through a rhetorical lens, Rife
leverages the tools and history of rhetoric to offer insights into
how some of our most ancient concepts inform our understanding of
the problems copyright law creates for writers. In this innovative
study that will be of interest to professional and technical
writers, scholars and students of writing and rhetoric, and legal
professionals, Rife offers possibilities for future research,
teaching, curriculum design, and public advocacy in regard to
composition and changing copyright laws.
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