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Kembrew McLeod, Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2004).
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York, NY: NYU Press, 2001).
Jonathan Lethem, “The Ecstasy of Influence,” Harper's Magazine (February 2007).
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October 6
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Freedom of Expression: For a Price
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Kembrew McLeod
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Kembrew McLeod is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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When I first began paying attention to matters of intellectual property over fifteen years ago, I observed the ways in which copyright laws were being deployed to stifle certain forms of creative expression. Since then I have grown increasingly concerned about the manner in which these laws are having a chilling effect on scholars' abilities to engage in critique and other kinds of analysis. This is especially the case when those scholars are dealing with popular culture, or even modernists like James Joyce, whose estate is notoriously aggressive in defending its copyrights. In this talk, I will discuss how my own experiences reflect that of many other scholars, and I will also detail the ways people have successfully fought back against overreaching copyright claims that stifle free speech. Throughout my talk, I will interweave clips from my recently completed educational video, “Freedom of Expression®”, to drive home some of the lecture's key points.
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