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Thanks to the hard work of all of those who have worked on this document in one form or another over the last few years, I am happy to announce that at the business meeting on Saturday morning at CCCC that the members voted to approve a formal resolution regarding open source software use. An official copy should be posted to the CCCC website sometime in the coming weeks. In the meantime, those wishing to see the draft version which was submitted to CCCC can view it here.

The Intellectual Property Caucus of the Conference on College Composition and Communication would like to invite all CCCC attendees to participate in this year's caucus event:

View the agenda.

At this year's CCCC, CCCC-IP, the CCCC IP Comitteee, and the 7C's passed the Open Source Resolution Statement which grew from a Town Hall conversation during Computers and Writing 2005.

Because it was too late to enter it through the formal resolution process, Michael Day and John Logie presented a version of this statement as a Sense of the House Motion during the Saturday CCCC Business Meeting. Assisted by supportive comments from Cindy Selfe during discussion, the motion was passed. Following is the text of the motion:

Read the agenda for this year's caucus meeting at CCCC in New York, 2:00-5:30 pm, March 21, 2007.

Karen has also created a handout with tips on how new members can participate.

We are officially listed as a caucus this year instead of a workshop, so there are no participation fees and no pre-conference registration. Be sure to invite others to attend!

The CCCC-IP website will be upgraded over the next 24 hrs. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

I don't know how I missed this before, but in her discussion of Lessig's talk, Clancy notes that Janine Solberg has posted the audio from Lessig's presentation on remix culture at CCCC 2005, a presentation which asks the important question, "Will Writing Be Allowed?"

In his post at Kairosnews, Matt Barton explains how he has been trying to persuade Elsevier to let him put up online a CC-licensed copy of an article that he wrote which has been accepted into Computers and Composition. No surprise, Elsevier is balking:

I finally heard back from Elsevier regarding my question about CC. Here is their response:

The Creative Commons licence you have sent is unfortunately not acceptable to Elsevier mainly due to the fact it does not give Elsevier the rights it needs and makes no warranty which is something that we must have before we can publish.

They have, however, offered me an alternative licensing agreement. The main difference is that I get to retain the copyright to the article. I'm not sure about the realities of the legal situation, but I'm curious if this means I'll be able to release the article under CC at some point in the future. I've pasted the agreement below. Please read it and respond quickly, because I need to let them know something very soon. The point that worries me most is 2.2, which says the publisher does not recognize my right to post the document to a website or distribute it in any "systematic" way, which seems like a damnably vague term to me. However, I'm thinking that since they've let me retain the copyright, does it matter that the publisher doesn't recognize that right?? Boy, am I confused.

Be sure to check out his post on Kairosnews with the licensing contract agreement offered by Elsevier.