Freedom of Expression®

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Freedom of Expression®

Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property

Kembrew McLeod
Foreword by Lawrence Lessig

Table of Contents
Author website

$18.95 paper
ISBN: 0-8166-5031-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5031-6

Winner of the American Library Association’s Oboler Award for best scholarship in the area of intellectual freedom.

Freedom of Expression® covers the ways in which intellectual property laws have been used to privatize all forms of expression—from guitar riffs and Donald Trump’s “you’re fired” gesture to human genes and public space—and in the process stifle creative expression. Kembrew McLeod challenges the blind embrace of privatization as it clashes against our right to free speech and shared resources.

“We’re living in an age of intellectual-property rights run amok . . . asserts Kembrew McLeod in this smart, amusing examination of the increasingly grubby clash between private property and free speech.” —Mother Jones

“[McLeod’s] examination of intellectual property law is clear, concise, and funny.” —Wired Magazine

Kembrew McLeod is professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa, author of Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Law, and coproducer of the documentary Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport.

Lawrence Lessig is professor of law at Stanford Law School.

This book’s documentary companion will be available through Media Education Foundation.

392 pages | 1 halftone | 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 | 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword: An Ideal Lawyer-Citizen (by Lawrence Lessig)
Introduction

1. This Gene Is Your Gene: Fencing Off the Folk and Genetic Commons
2. Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport
3. Illegal Art: When Art Gets in Trouble with the Law, Art Gives the Law Trouble Back
4. Culture, Inc.: Our Hyper-Referential, Branded Culture
5. Our Privatized World: Selling Off the Public Square, Culture, Education, Our Democracy, and Everything Else
6. The Digital Future: And the Analog Past

Afterword: Freedom of Expression®
Epilogue: The Day I Killed Freedom of Expression
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Freedom of Expression® *Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property* Kembrew McLeod Foreword by Lawrence Lessig Table of Contents Author website		$18.95 paper ISBN: 0-8166-5031-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5031-6
Winner of the American Library Association’s Oboler Award for best scholarship in the area of intellectual freedom. Freedom of Expression® covers the ways in which intellectual property laws have been used to privatize all forms of expression—from guitar riffs and Donald Trump’s “you’re fired” gesture to human genes and public space—and in the process stifle creative expression. Kembrew McLeod challenges the blind embrace of privatization as it clashes against our right to free speech and shared resources. “We’re living in an age of intellectual-property rights run amok . . . asserts Kembrew McLeod in this smart, amusing examination of the increasingly grubby clash between private property and free speech.” —Mother Jones “[McLeod’s] examination of intellectual property law is clear, concise, and funny.” —Wired Magazine Kembrew McLeod is professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa, author of Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Law, and coproducer of the documentary Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport. Lawrence Lessig is professor of law at Stanford Law School. This book’s documentary companion will be available through Media Education Foundation. 392 pages \| 1 halftone \| 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 \| 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: An Ideal Lawyer-Citizen (by Lawrence Lessig) Introduction 1. This Gene Is Your Gene: Fencing Off the Folk and Genetic Commons 2. Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport 3. Illegal Art: When Art Gets in Trouble with the Law, Art Gives the Law Trouble Back 4. Culture, Inc.: Our Hyper-Referential, Branded Culture 5. Our Privatized World: Selling Off the Public Square, Culture, Education, Our Democracy, and Everything Else 6. The Digital Future: And the Analog Past Afterword: Freedom of Expression® Epilogue: The Day I Killed Freedom of Expression Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index