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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 AWARD FOR 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 Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

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.