resistance and repression in the age of intellectual property /
Kembrew McLeod ; foreword by Lawrence Lessig ; with a new epilogue by the author.
1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2007.
x, 379 pages ;
21 cm
Originally published: Freedom of expression®: overzealous copyright bozos and other enemies of creativity. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-368) and index.
This gene is your gene : fencing off the folk and genetic commons -- Copyright criminals : this is a sampling sport -- Illegal art : when art gets in trouble with the law, art gives the law trouble back -- Culture, inc. : our hyper-referential, branded culture -- Our privatized world : selling off the public square, culture, education, our democracy, and everything else -- The digital future : and the analog past -- Afterword: Freedom of expression® -- Epilogue: The day I killed freedom of expression.
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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.--Publisher website.
Copyright-- United States.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)-- Economic aspects-- United States.