About the Author

John Logie is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Director of Graduate Studies for the Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication Programs for the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. His 2006 book Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates addressed questions of information policy and persuasion. His scholarship has also been published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, College English, First Monday, Computers and Composition, and a number of edited volumes. These articles reflect his sustaining interest in internet studies, rhetorical invention, visual rhetoric, and challenges to the body of laws known collectively as "intellectual property."