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L. Berg  \nA Dissertation  \nSubmitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green  \nState University in partial fulfillment of  \nthe requirements for the degree of  \nDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY  \nDecember 2013  \nCommittee:  \nMichael L. Butterworth, Advisor  \nKristen Rudsill  \nGraduate Faculty Representative  \nVictoria Smith Ekstrand  \nJoshua D. Atkinson  \nABSTRACT  \nMichael L. Butterworth, Advisor  \nCopyright is in theory a neutral legal instrument, but in practice copyright functions as an ideological tool. The value of creative content in culture vacillates between the rhetorical poles of progress and profit within copyright law. This study is an ideographic rhetorical critique of \u003Ccopyright>. Ideographs are rhetorical containers of ideology that publics use to define various aspects of culture. Some ideographs are contained within the dialogue of a topic. I argue five terms that make up the ideographic grammar of \u003Ccopyright>: public domain, fair use, authorship, ownership, and piracy. The public domain is the space where \u003Ccopyrighted> material enters when the term of protection expires. The public domain expresses the ideology that creative material belongs to the people who consume content. Fair use is the free speech exception to copyright law that allows for certain types of infringement. Fair Use is the ideology in which the use of creative work belonging to others must be fairly represented. Authorship is how an author creates content and how an audience consumes it. Authorship is an ideology focused on progress towards the process of creating content as motivated by an author. The question at the center of authorship is who controls content: the author or the public. Ownership takes the question of authorship one-step further by invoking material property. Ownership is the embodiment of the idea that management, control, and profit of copyright are more valuable than original creation. The Corporate Public is focused on ownership of content, because ownership is a legal condition of property where a person or group can profit. Piracy, which appears most often in any discussion of copyright law, is an intentional theft of copyrighted work(s) . \u003CPiracy> is a battleground between content theft and the people who publically resist copyright.  \nDEDICATION  \nTo my two William Bergs: The one who got me here and the one who just arrived.  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nFamily  \nBill Berg-Saying that I could not have done this without you is an understatement. Five years ago I sent you an email broaching the idea of returning to grad school. You knew it would be hard, lonely, and far away from our families, but you didn’t falter. You knew this was my next step well before I did. Thank you for being the definition of a supportive partner and dynamic parent.  \nWilliam Berg, III-The amount that I love you astounds me every day. I could not have you in the office while I tried to work because I just wanted to stare at you the whole time. Thank you for sleeping though the night at such a young age and listening to me read critical rhetoric to you to clear out my head.  \nMom-I love you so much. Thank you for your constant stream of praise. You have never shied away from showing me how much you love me. Thank you for the cards, frequent visits and for being proud of me even though you are rightly suspicious of graduate education. I hope Iam just as clear with my love for you.  \nDad-You always wanted me to be a lawyer and instead I became a critic of the language of law. I think my route pays better. I know how proud you are of me because other people tell me how much you brag about me.  \nIzzy-Thank you for taking my long, rambling phone calls and indulging my ranting about our shared love of pop culture.  \nBill and Mary-Thank you for letting me kidnap your son and always being nothing but supportive of our choices.  \nTo Jim and M","cbCaiiNtQsl1lYJD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiNtQsl1lYJD","pdf",1173077,247,"English","# Abstract\n## Ideographs and ideology in copyright\n## The ideographic grammar: public domain, fair use, authorship, ownership, piracy\n## Authorship and ownership as control and property","[{\"question\":\"How does the dissertation distinguish public domain, fair use, authorship, ownership, and piracy?\",\"answer\":\"Public domain is where protected material enters after protection ends; fair use is the speech-based exception allowing certain infringements; authorship centers on who controls content; ownership reframes that control as property and profit; piracy presents intentional theft and a site of public resistance.\"}]","Knowledge, Cultural Production, and Construction of the Law - An Ideographic Rhetorical Criticism of \u003Ccopyright> - Dissertation Abstract | PDF",86]