Dear Everyone: We are very excited to announce the September 2010 special issue of Computers and Composition: Copyright, Culture, Creativity, and the Commons is now available! The special issue was co-edited by Steve Westbrook, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, John Logie, and myself, and features articles/reviews from brilliant and beloved scholars such as (in order of appearance) James M. Meese, Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, Jennifer Lee Sano-Franchini, Jeffrey R. Galin, Joan Latchaw, Dan L. Burk, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Angela M. Haas, and Clancy Ratliff. A summary of the table of contents is pasted below. We hope that you all enjoy reading this intriguing, provocative, ahead-of-its-time special issue, and that you will use these pieces for teaching and research. Thank you! http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/87554615 TABLE OF CONTENTS James M. Meese, Resistance or Negotiation: An Australian Perspective on Copyright Law's Cultural Agenda, pp. 167-178 Annette Vee, Carving up the Commons: How Software Patents Are Impacting Our Digital Composition Environments, pp. 179-192 Tim Laquintano, Manufacturing Scarcity: Online Poker, Digital Writing, and the Flow of Intellectual Property, pp. 193-201 Jennifer Lee Sano-Franchini, Intellectual Property and the Cultures of BitTorrent Communities, pp. 202-210 Jeffrey R. Galin, Joan Latchaw, From Incentive to Stewardship: The Shifting Discourse of Academic Publishing, pp. 211-224 Dan L. Burk, Materiality and Textuality in Digital Rights Management, pp. 225-234 Book Reviews: Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder reviews Steve Westbrook, Ed. Composition and Copyright: Perspective on Teaching, Text-Making, and Fair Use. SUNY Press, Albany, NY (2009) 225 pp., pp. 235-237 Angela M. Haas reviews Michael F. Brown. Who Owns Native Culture? Harvard University Press, Cambridge (2003) 315 pp., pp. 238-241 Clancy Ratliff reviews Jessica Reyman. The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property: Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture. Routledge, New York (2010) 188 pp., pp. 242-245 **** -- Martine Courant Rife, JD, PhD Professor, Writing Program Coordinator, Technical and Business Writing Lansing Community College Communication Department Arts & Sciences Building, 211G, 517/4839906 martinerife@gmail.com skype martine.courant.rife http://www.martinecourantrife.com/ *** Editor, Intellectual Property Committee/Caucus CCCC-National Council Teachers of English Newsletter *** Chair, Nominating Committee 2010-2011 CCCC *** Junior Chair, CCCC-Intellectual Property Caucus