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Volume 27, Issue 3, 2010
Special Issue: Copyright, Culture, Creativity, and the Commons

Letter from the Guest Editors
Martine Courant Rife, Steve Westbrook, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss and John Logie

Resistance or Negotiation: An Australian Perspective on Copyright Law's Cultural Agenda
James M. Meese

Carving up the Commons: How Software Patents Are Impacting Our Digital Composition Environments
Annette Vee

Manufacturing Scarcity: Online Poker, Digital Writing, and the Flow of Intellectual Property
Tim Laquintano

Intellectual Property and the Cultures of BitTorrent Communities
Jennifer Lee Sano-Franchini

From Incentive to Stewardship: The Shifting Discourse of Academic Publishing
Jeffrey R. Galin, Joan Latchaw

Materiality and Textuality in Digital Rights Management
Dan L. Burk

Book Review

Steve Westbrook, Ed. Composition and Copyright: Perspective on Teaching, Text-Making, and Fair Use. SUNY Press, Albany, NY (2009) 225 pp.
Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder

Michael F. Brown. Who Owns Native Culture? Harvard University Press, Cambridge (2003) 315 pp.
Angela M. Haas

Jessica Reyman. The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property: Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture. Routledge, New York (2010) 188 pp.
Clancy Ratliff

Computers and Composition:
An International Journal

Computers and Composition is a professional journal devoted to exploring the use of computers in composition classes, programs, and scholarly projects. It provides teachers and scholars a forum for discussing issues connected to Image of journal covercomputer use. The journal also offers information about integrating digital composing environments into writing programs on the basis of sound theoretical and pedagogical decisions and empirical evidence.

Computers and Composition welcomes articles, reviews, and letters to the editors that may be of interest to readers, including descriptions of computer-based composition and/or reading instruction, discussions of topics related to multimodal composing; explorations of controversial ethical, legal, or social issues related to the use of computers in composition programs; discussions of professional development and teacher education; explorations of tenure and promotion issues for scholars who work in electronic environments; studies of digital literacy; and discussions of how computers affect the form and content of discourse, the process by which discourse is produced, or the impact discourses have on audiences.

The print journal, Computers and Composition, has existed since 1983. The online journal, Computers and Composition Online, was established in 1996. See History of the Journal for more information.