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Karen, as a past Chair of the CCCC IP Caucus and Committee, could you provide us with an overview of these governance bodies?

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I'm Karen Lunsford, and I'm from the University of California Santa Barbara. And, I've been a member of the Caucus--I was trying to remember--I think at least ten years now. You know, the first Caucus I came to, I was reporting out on a study 

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...that I had done on plagiarism issues which is one of the issues that the Caucus takes up regularly. What I had done was an assignment in my business writing class when I had asked people to do some definition work. You know, define plagiarism, define collaboration, define the world wide web, and there was something else I had them define, and what was fascinating was to see how the students were defining collaboration versus plagiarism. Oh, and the fact that it was digital and how they were working among those three definitions. And, essentially what they were saying was if someone has posted it; they want you to collaborate with it which means you can take it, and therefore it's not plagiarism. 

It was just a fascinating venue to present that study as a very sort of young graduate student at the time, sort of working out those ideas, and I found a very supportive place to do that.

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So the caucus has, oh I forget how old the Caucus is,

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It's at least 19 years old, I've been here 14 years.

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19, 19 years old. And, so, it has been the place where people have come together to talk about it, and talk about all sorts of IP issues. Issues such as plagiarism, but also what is authorship? What are some of the legislation that is affecting different kinds of Intellectual Property? So, it is copyright, as well as patent, as well as trademark. What different institutions are putting into place in order to regulate Intellectual Property? Who owns Intellectual Property in an academic setting? Do students get a chance to own Intellectual Property? Do faculty own Intellectual Property? If so, what's the difference between what the campus owns and what the individual instructor owns? All sorts of issues along these lines.

So the Caucus has had a quite wide representation of interests in it, which is one thing that I find very fascinating about it. The caucus has existed for quite some time, and then the IP Committee. The Intellectual Property Committee was generated out of the Caucus as official representation to the CCCC and the IP committee is part of the governance structure of the CCCC. They report directly to the executive committee, so they are able to develop statements, official statements that are able to be put out by the CCCC, able to promote resolutions that the caucus first develops and then makes official by sending up through the IP committee. It's a group that works with the Caucus; the Caucus often works as a task force for things that come down from the IP committee, so it's a nice relationship I think that we have. 

I was chair of the IP committee for three years before Jeff [Galin] who you will be talking to in a minute, so I'm the immediate past chair of the committee. And, it was fascinating to see how the governing structure of the CCCC works and how you can, again, raise concern, raise issues with the executive committee that will impact the entire CCCCs membership as well as it turns out the NCTE membership--because we tend to be the organization that is also addressing issues that effect the entire NCTE, so we've kind of taken on that role even though it's not officially part of our mandate. We started things like the IP annual and the IP reports, the monthly reports, in order to fulfill one of our mandates which is to inform the CCCC and the NCTE memberships about IP issues. 

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