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January 02, 2008
John Logie, '87
Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates, Parlor Press, 2006.
The book: This book investigates the role of rhetoric in shaping public perceptions about a novel technology: peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. While broadband Internet services now allow speedy transfers of complex media files, Americans face real uncertainty about whether peer-to-peer file sharing is or should be legal. Logie analyzes the public arguments growing out of more than five years of debate sparked by the advent of Napster, the first widely adopted peer-to-peer technology. He joins the ongoing effort to challenge and change copyright law so that it fulfills its purpose of fostering creativity and innovation while protecting the rights of artists in an attention economy.
The author: John Logie, an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, is known for his work addressing questions of authorship and textual ownership. He has written for numerous publications and is chair of the Committee on Intellectual Property of the Conference of College Composition and Communication.
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