Short Essay #2 : Intellectual Property

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What is Intellectual Property?  What does Wikipedia say about Intellectual Property?

We list the ways that Intellectual Property can be protected:

 

patent, copyright, trademark are the big three.

Read the handout.  Watch this video called "Copyright: Forever Less One Day."   What is the problem with current copyright law that concerns Grey? Can you find a statement of this in the handout? What evidence does he use?

Presently, there are many problems with intellectual property in our technological world. You may already be familiar with some; I'm going to give you sources to help you discover others. You MUST spend some time looking at these sources. You will have to summarize ONE of them for homework, and you can use any of them for source material (evidence) for your Short Essay #2 on Intellectual Proporty (see handout).

Overviews of Intellectual Property:

An infographic titled "How Intellectual is Your Property?"

A prezi titled "Practical Knowlege Topic: Patents and Trademarks."

A very short Youtube video titled "SOPA and Three Ways to Think About Intellectual Property."

Problems with Intellectual Property:

An infographic "The Problem with Patents."

A short Youtube video "A Shared Culture."

A blog post about "Using a Copyright Infringement Claim to Shut Down the Opposition."

A short TED talk "How I Beat a Patent Troll."    More TED talks on problems with patents.

A news story about a strange trademark battle "A Successful Fight for The Right to a Non-Trademarked Party." (Drinking song involved. Here's a Youtube video about it.)

How about Monsanto and patents? "Farmer Tackling Monsanto's Seed Policy Gets Day in Supreme Court."

A radical view: "The Case Against Intellectual Property" (If you watch this, be sure to google Adam Kokesh, the source, to see what he's been up to lately.)

And two places who are trying to fix things: "Trolling Effects"  and  "Chilling Effects"

What should your short essay do?

1.  Have an introduction that leads to a thesis statement. That's one sentence that states your point.

2. Have body paragraphs that support or prove your point. Choose examples that will hit us between the eyes, and discuss them in detail, thoughtfully.

3. As you discuss this, you should be showing your awareness of the "other side" in whatever position you take.

4. Conclude the paper NOT with repetition, but circle back to your excellent hook.

Homework:

1. Look at two or more of the above sources. Write a summary of ONE of them in your daybook; be prepared to tell the class what you learned from that source.

2. Be thinking about one aspect of Intellectual Property that you can write about and get started. Choosing which examples you want to discuss is key. The essay is due Weds. August 7.

3. TWFTD:  intellectual property

Plagiarism

First of all, "bad" analogies. I used to get an email with the subject, "Why English Teachers Die Young." It was "bad high school student writing". It said. But it was funny...

Snopes (the place on the internet to go to see if you're being fooled) revealed that these gems are the result of writers' hard work at winning a contest.
If you'd like to read more of them, go to the same contest from a different year.

In your daybook, please copy down two of these that you think are especially good, AND INCLUDE THE AUTHOR'S NAME.

Now, in your daybook, define plagiarism. Here's one.      And here's an older version.

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Why did the publisher cancel her contract and destroy her books? Do you think this was appropriate?

Helene

2. Why was this outcome SO DIFFERENT?

Herr Guttenberg

3. Was this the right outcome for a politician, for Germany?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

Book covers?

4. Was this a case of theft? Who decides?

If the courts are in charge...

5. Do you agree with the Australian Supreme Court ruling?

If there's time....better news, for some: music... TV iTunes

6. Whom do you think the law says that TV news footage "belongs" to? What do you think? Have you heard of "fair use"?

All the questions above are answered in the daybook.

Homework:

1. Tomorrow your Final Version is due. Bring your hard copy with ALL blue sheets and drafts to turn in.

2. TWFTD: nebulous.

Editing Using TurnItIn

 1. Finding coordination and subordination.  Look at the last paragraph of "Communications" on page 84 in Bedford. I see two examples of coordination and one ( and a hard-to-find second) example of subordination. In your daybook, copy down the words you think are doing coordination and subordination between full clauses [with a couple of the words around them].

2. Editing using TurnItIn: Open your Draft 2 in the TurnItIn assignment where you submitted it yesterday, and think about fixes to apply to your draft. Think about RE-WRITING (Transforming!) sentences that are confusing, overly long, or marked up in mysterious ways.

What's a C/S or comma splice? It's a run-on made WITH a comma. It's a comma missing the FANBOYS word. It's a comma that should be a period.

Also, do your paragraphs make sense as units of organization?

Do you have a hook?

Homework:

1. Continue editing your paper. The final version will be handed in with ALL DRAFTS on Friday.

2. TWFTD: sinister in OED

Draft #2 Due of Observation/ Description

Get out your Writer's Page from Draft #1 and attach to Draft #2 with new comment sheets.

Review of sentences:

Coordination:    I was late, and I missed the beginning.
I was late, so I missed the beginning.

Subordination:      I missed the beginning because I was late.
Because I was late, I missed the beginning.
 

Do what the Writer's Page tells you to do with your draft #2. Then we exchange.

When you are done, you upload your electronic file of your draft in Moodle.

Homework:

1. Look at your feedback. Whether or not the feedback is useful, it's your job  to figure out what will make the paper better.

2. TWFTD: idiot in OED

The OED and Sentence Variety

The OED and "punk."

Sentence variety: Everday Writer pages 287-294. What is coordination and subordination?

Let's see what you already know.  You write some sentences. Then you make changes.

We look at them.  Then you look in your Draft #1 for examples.

If there's time, we look at this.

Homework:

1. Draft 2 due, both 2 paper copies and an electronic copy to submit in TurnItIn.

2. TWFTD: "punk" from the OED. You must choose a quote used in the OED, give the year only (not the source, unless you wish to), and give the definition that matches that quote.