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 A. Appendices: //Digital Writing Workshop//

﻿Complicating Copyright in a Digital Age

=Sample Lesson:=

**What is a Wiki?: a web page that can be collaboratively composed, edited, and commented upon by What multiple contributors.**

**Where can you find a good wiki site?: www.wikispaces.com**

**Step 1: Inviting Students to Thing About Wikis:**

**a. [|Wikis in Plain English]**

b. Wiki pros and cons matrix on pp. 142 and 143

=Step 2: Inviting Students to Work with Wikis: Think about a page to create on our EIWP Wiki.=

a. [|wikipedia fair use article]

b. [|Hall Davidson Fair Use Chart]

c. Public Domain sites: [|library of congress] and [|kitzu]

d. [|Lawrence Lessig's ideas for sharing digital media]

e. Creative Commons: [|Creative Commons Website] [|7 things you should know about creative commons] =Step 3: Introducing Scenarios for Student Groups:=

a. Is it ethical to download music from the Internet?: Think of scenarios that complicate the idea of production and consumption of digital texts from iTunes to Project Gutenberg.

b. Justify why and how you should, could, or would use particular content and what fair-use provision they must apply in order to use it.

=Step 4: Teaching Collaboration and Coauthorship:=

a. Serial writing: a train of individuals work on a task.

b. Compiled writing: here all individuals add components of a text and retain some control over part of the final text.

c. Coauthored writing: it is difficult to distinguish the work of one writer from another

Questions: Who owns a collaborative piece? Will there have to be a single, final author for each piece, or can the final product truly be considered an equal experience for grading? Should it be?

=Step 5: Wrap-Up and Assessment:=

a. Do they make a compelling argument for or against fair use based on the four principles of purpose, nature, amount, and effect of use?

b. Do they understand the difference between materials in the public domain, under copyright, and open to Creative Commons license?

c. In what ways have they been able to appropriately incorporate public domain and Creative Commons materials into their work, especially if they have created multimedia?

d. In what ways do they cite their sources?

= = = = = = =Welcome to Your New Wiki!=

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