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Part I: My Co-Edited Cultural Studies special issue with Ted Striphas

"The Politics of Intellectual Properties"
A Special Issue of Cultural Studies
Edited by Ted Striphas & Kembrew McLeod

Download entire issue in one zipped file or download individual essays below:

• (1) Ted Striphas & Kembrew McLeod, “Introduction—Strategic Improprieties: Cultural Studies, the Everyday, and the Politics of Intellectual Properties”
• (2) Adrian Johns, “Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science”
• (3) McKenzie Wark, “Information Wants to be Free (But is Everywhere in Chains)”
• (4) Andrew Herman, Rosemary J. Coombe, & Lewis Kaye, “Your Second Life? Goodwill and the Performativity of Intellectual Properties in On-Line Games”
• (5) Steve Jones, “Reality© and Virtual Reality©: When Virtual and Real Worlds Collide”
• (6) Jane Gaines, “Early Cinema, Heyday of Copying: The Too Many Copies of L’arroseur arose”
• (7) Gilbert B. Rodman & Cheyanne Vanderdonckt, “Music for Nothing or, I Want My MP3: The Regulation and Recirculation of Affect”
• (8) David Sanjek, “Ridiculing the 'White Bread Original': The Politics of Parody and Preservation of Greatness in Luther Campbell a.k.a. Luke Skyywalker et al. v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.”
• (9) Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, “Out of Sight and Out of Mind: On the Cultural Hegemony of Intellectual Property (Critique)”
• (10) Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Afterword—Critical Information Studies: A Bibliographic Manifesto”
• (11) Patricia R. Zimmermann, “Just Say No: Negativland's No Business”

These PDFs are reproduced with the permission of the Publisher. It has been published as a special thematic issue of Cultural Studies (Volume 20 Issues 2 and 3). Further details about Cultural Studies can be found at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09502386.asp.

Part II: My Book, Freedom of Expression®

***WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S OBOLER AWARDFOR BEST SCHOLARSHIP IN THE AREA OF INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM***

Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity, published in 2005 by Random House/Doubleday.

Intellectual Property Versus Free Expression: Does Copyright Murder Freedom?, translated and published in Japan in 2006 (not my chosen title, but it's awesome nonetheless!).

Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property, forthcoming paperback edition to be published Spring 2007 by University of Minnesota Press -- revised, and with a new afterword by the author and a forword by Stanford University Law Professor Lawrence Lessig.

Also coming in 2007: The Media Education Foundation's documentary companion to the book, also titled Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property

Download the Creative Commons-Licensed PDF of the hardcover edition Freedom of Expression by clicking here.

Part III: My Published Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters

• McLeod, K. (2009). Crashing the Spectacle: A Forgotten History of Digital Sampling, Infringement, Copyright Liberation and the End of Recorded Music. Culture Machine, Vol. 10, 114-130.
• McLeod, K. (2008). Du Rififi Dans La Pop Music: Une Histoire Oubliée du Droit D'Auteur (French Translation). Rue Descartes, 60, 105-113.
• McLeod, K. (2008). Freedom of Expression® Als Eingetragenes/Trademarking Freedom of Expression® (German Translation). In Geistigen Eigentums (ed), Anna Kournikova Deleted by Memeright Trusted System, HMKV, Dortmund, Germany, 114-137.
• McLeod, K (2008). Humor in Music. Sonic Arts Network, Spring, 5-21.
• McLeod, K. (2006). Registracija Svobode Izrazanja®/Trademarking Freedom of Expression® (Slovenian translation). Maska, 21, 98-99, 82-95.
• McLeod, K. (2006). Consumption and Intellectual Property. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology(2006). George Ritzer (ed).
• T. Striphas & K. McLeod (2006). Strategic Improprieties: Cultural Studies, the Everyday, and Intellectual Property Law. Cultural Studies, 20, 2-3, 119-144.
• McLeod, K. (2005). MP3s Are Killing Home Taping: The Rise of Internet Distribution and Its Challenge to the Major Label Music Monopoly. Journal of Popular Music & Society, 28, 4, 521-532.
• McLeod, K. (2005). Confessions of an Intellectual (Property): Danger Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Sonny Bono and My Long and Winding Path as an Activist-Scholar. Journal of Popular Music & Society, 28, 1, 79-92.
• McLeod, K. (2003). Cease and Desist: Freedom of Expression® in the Age of Intellectual Property, POROI, 2, 2, November.
• McLeod, K. (2003). Intellectual Property Law, Freedom of Expression and the Web. Electronic Book Review, September.
• McLeod, K. (2002). Making the Video: Constructing An Effective Counter-Hegemonic Message In Only Forty Nine Minutes, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 14, 1, 79-88.
• McLeod, K. (2002). Musical Production, Copyright and the Private Ownership of Culture. In J. Lewis & T. Miller (Eds.), Critical Cultural Policy: A Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 240-252.
• McLeod, K. (2002). Gender and Rock Criticism. In S. Jones (Ed.), Pop Music & The Press, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 93-113.
• McLeod, K. (2002). The History and Politics of Hip-Hop Journalism.In S. Jones (Ed.), Pop Music & The Press, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 156-170.
• McLeod, K. (2001). One and a Half Stars: A Critique of Rock Criticism in North America, Popular Music, 20/21, 47-60.
• McLeod, K. (2001). Genres, Sub-Genres, Sub-Sub-Genres, etc.: Sub-Genre Naming In Electronic/Dance Music, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 13, 59-76.
• McLeod, K. (1999). Authenticity Within Hip-Hop and Other Cultures Threatened With Assimilation, Journal of Communication, 49, 134-150.