Cultures of Copyright ― Contemporary Intellectual Property

In this edited collection of 24 articles, authors discuss the proliferation of copyright and its signs and symbols, as well as the shifting meaning of property in a global digital environment. The editors, both writing teachers, place the discussions in three contexts: a humanistic one, which connects to protecting authorship and creating and delivering information and cultural matters, such as political issues related to intellectual property and the use and control of intellectual commons; a digital one, in which a multitude of individuals create and upload content and most content is no longer produced by major media companies; and a cultural one, critiquing the complex hybridization and cannibalization of culture taking place in a globalized world. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Danielle Nicole DeVoss (PhD, Michigan Technological University) is Professor of Professional Writing at Michigan State University. She is co-editor of Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Composition Classroom (2011) and Digital Writing Assessment and Evaluation (2013). Martine Courant Rife (J. D., University of Denver; PhD, Michigan State University) is Professor of Writing at Lansing Community College. She serves on the CCCC- Intellectual Property Caucus and Committee. Her work has appeared in Technical Communication, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, and IEEE-Transactions on Professional Communication.