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Do you believe in open access?

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(Laughs)…I believe personally I don't feel that much commitment to owning my own work as solitary author with my name on every page, but I recognize the importance and the need--you know, in tenure systems, in recognition systems, in corporate systems, in the world--to have that sort of ownership.

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What types of work are you currently working on, and what do you see as up and coming issues for IP?

Martine Rife and I recently did a book, Copy(write), which really attends to what happens in the classroom, how we implicate ourselves, and how we implicate students in Intellectual Property issues, especially when we're having them craft multimodal work. 

And, then, Martine and I are working on a second collection right now called Cultures of Copyright. And, I'm really interested in this book because we're going much more broad beyond composition, and hopefully speaking to the humanities more broadly in the context of digital humanities studies and this next wave of humanities computing work.

So, I just did a talk yesterday that for me helps me frame the importance of culture and attending to culture in Intellectual Property issues. And, I actually wasn't talking about Copyright, I was talking about Trademarking and specifically talking about a 1998 act that President Clinton…yeah I just said Napster is too old, and I now I'm talking about '98…it was a 1998 public law that Clinton signed, part of which was requiring the US Patent and Trademark Office of The Department of Commerce to conduct a study on how to better protect Native American symbols and insignia. 

[Interviewer speaks/Audio]: That's really cool.

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Because as we all know, the 80s were an absolute gold rush for Native American language, words, even customs and especially symbols and icons. So everyone is grabbing them up putting them on the back of trucks, mascots, you know, all that…

So, this was a response to that. What happens when people take a Native culture's symbol that has been in practice and in process in the culture for hundreds of years and trademark it and claim ownership of it. So, I was talking about that process and the public hearings that resulted a part of the public act and the specific response of some academics to it. So, I think that's going to be like a next interesting thread in IP stuff, so we've got copyright issues that are interesting and fair use of course and I think we need to keep talking, being activists, and researching that, but I think looking at Patenting invention processes and then Trademarking and Branding processes is going to be interesting work in the next couple of years. 

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