Back in the spring, John Logie, who’s been chairing the CCCC Intellectual Property Committee, proposed an annual series of briefs on major legal developments that impact the discipline. The briefs that Jim Porter, Martine Courant-Rife, Jessica Reyman, and I wrote this year are now available on the CCCC site as The Major Intellectual Property Developments of 2005 for Scholars of Composition and Communication. Jim and Martine offer an expansion of their WIDE paper on MGM v. Grokster, Jessica examines BMG v. Gonzalez, and I discuss the two major suits against the Google Print project.