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The New Market Affair: Scouting For Gold In The Hills Of The Shenandoah Valley, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 2011

The New Market Affair: Scouting For Gold In The Hills Of The Shenandoah Valley, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Cutting Across Media : Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, And Copyright Law, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 2010

Cutting Across Media : Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, And Copyright Law, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Creative License - The Law And Culture Of Digital Sampling, Kembrew Mcleod, P. Dicola Dec 2010

Creative License - The Law And Culture Of Digital Sampling, Kembrew Mcleod, P. Dicola

Kembrew McLeod

The golden age of sampling -- A legal and cultural history of sound collage -- The competing interests in sample licensing -- Sampling lawsuits : hip-hop goes to court -- The sample clearance system : how it works (and how it breaks down) -- Consequences for creativity : an assessment of the sample clearance system -- Proposals for reform


Media Pranks: A Three-Act Essay, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 2010

Media Pranks: A Three-Act Essay, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

Times are tough for public universities. Over the past quarter-century, state legislatures have slashed college budgets, and these cuts have only accelerated during a seemingly endless economic meltdown. We have been told to do more with less, make sacrifices, and be self-sufficient—and I couldn’t agree more. Unlike those socialists lining up to mainline milk from the nanny state, many of us favor fiscally sound solutions. We should teach our children well by following dogmatically free-market principles that reject government meddling. My modest proposal is multipronged and forward-thinking. It would hand over all aspects of academic life to private companies, creating …


On Pranks, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 2010

On Pranks, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Everything Is Connected, Kembrew Mcleod Oct 2010

Everything Is Connected, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

The article discusses U.S. copyright law and the copyright clearance system, focusing on the author's documentary film "Copyright Criminals," which aired on Public Broadcasting System (PBS). It explores sampling and collage in audiovisual media, commenting on use of the practice by hip-hop group Public Enemy. Other topics include the Washington, D.C. Center for Social Media, intellectual property, and fair use. The author also examines his book "Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property" and a prank in which he successfully copyrighted the phrase "Freedom of Expression"


Freedom Of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos And Other Enemies Of Creativity, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

Freedom Of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos And Other Enemies Of Creativity, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Cease And Desist: Freedom Of Expression In The Shadows Of Intellectual Property, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

Cease And Desist: Freedom Of Expression In The Shadows Of Intellectual Property, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Intellectual Property Law, Freedom Of Expression, And The Web, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

Intellectual Property Law, Freedom Of Expression, And The Web, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Mp3s Are Killing Home Taping: The Rise Of Internet Distribution And Its Challenge To The Major Label Music Monopoly, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

Mp3s Are Killing Home Taping: The Rise Of Internet Distribution And Its Challenge To The Major Label Music Monopoly, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Making The Video: Constructing An Effective Counter-Hegemonic Message In Only Forty-Nine Minutes, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

Making The Video: Constructing An Effective Counter-Hegemonic Message In Only Forty-Nine Minutes, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Du Rififi Dans La Pop Music: Une Histoire Oubliee Du Droit D'Auteur, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

Du Rififi Dans La Pop Music: Une Histoire Oubliee Du Droit D'Auteur, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


One And A Half Stars: A Critique Of Rock Criticism In North America, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

One And A Half Stars: A Critique Of Rock Criticism In North America, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Confessions Of An Intellectual (Property): Danger Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Sonny Bono, And My Long And Winding Path As A Copyright Activist-Academic, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

Confessions Of An Intellectual (Property): Danger Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Sonny Bono, And My Long And Winding Path As A Copyright Activist-Academic, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Crashing The Spectacle: A Forgotten History Of Digital Sampling, Infringement, Copyright Liberation And The End Of Recorded Music, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

Crashing The Spectacle: A Forgotten History Of Digital Sampling, Infringement, Copyright Liberation And The End Of Recorded Music, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Genres, Subgenres, Sub-Subgenres And More: Musical And Social Differentiation Within Electronic/Dance Music Communities, Kembrew Mcleod Aug 2010

Genres, Subgenres, Sub-Subgenres And More: Musical And Social Differentiation Within Electronic/Dance Music Communities, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Phoning It In: A Digitized Lecture-Performance On The History Of Music And The Telephone, By The Killer Apps, Kembrew Mcleod, L. Glass Apr 2010

Phoning It In: A Digitized Lecture-Performance On The History Of Music And The Telephone, By The Killer Apps, Kembrew Mcleod, L. Glass

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Licensed To Ill: The Relationship Between The Current Copyright Clearance System And Alternative Licensing Systems. Intellectual Property And The Making And Marketing Of Music In The Digital Age:, Kembrew Mcleod Mar 2010

Licensed To Ill: The Relationship Between The Current Copyright Clearance System And Alternative Licensing Systems. Intellectual Property And The Making And Marketing Of Music In The Digital Age:, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Featuring The Copyright Criminals All-Stars Band, Kembrew Mcleod, B. Franzen Mar 2010

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Featuring The Copyright Criminals All-Stars Band, Kembrew Mcleod, B. Franzen

Kembrew McLeod

Co-produced live musical event for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, featuring the Copyright Criminals All-Stars Band (Public Enemy‘s Chuck D, James Brown Band drummer Clyde Stubblefield, The Roots drummer Questlove, The Roots MC Black Thought, and VJs/audio-visual remixers Eclectic Method). National broadcast on NBC


Fair Use, Copyright Clearance, And Multimedia Scholarship, Kembrew Mcleod Jan 2010

Fair Use, Copyright Clearance, And Multimedia Scholarship, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Scratch That: The Sample License Clearance Process And Artist Compensation, Kembrew Mcleod Oct 2009

Scratch That: The Sample License Clearance Process And Artist Compensation, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Media Pranks And Pedagogy, Kembrew Mcleod Oct 2009

Media Pranks And Pedagogy, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Copyright Criminals, Fair Use, And The Difficulties Of Doing Multimedia Scholarship, Kembrew Mcleod Sep 2009

Copyright Criminals, Fair Use, And The Difficulties Of Doing Multimedia Scholarship, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Copyright, The Clearance Culture, And Filmmaking, Kembrew Mcleod Sep 2009

Copyright, The Clearance Culture, And Filmmaking, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


The Ironies Of Making Copyright Criminals, Kembrew Mcleod Apr 2009

The Ironies Of Making Copyright Criminals, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Expression: Resistance And Repression In The Age Of Intellectual Property, Kembrew Mcleod Apr 2009

Freedom Of Expression: Resistance And Repression In The Age Of Intellectual Property, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


From Audio To Print To Video To Court: Copyright Law And ―Sampling‖ Across Media, Kembrew Mcleod Jan 2009

From Audio To Print To Video To Court: Copyright Law And ―Sampling‖ Across Media, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Copyright Criminals: A Discussion About Filmmaking, The Clearance Culture, And Fair Use, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 2008

Copyright Criminals: A Discussion About Filmmaking, The Clearance Culture, And Fair Use, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Copyright Criminals, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 2008

Copyright Criminals, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

Feature-length documentary. World premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 19, 2009. United States broadcast premiere on PBS‘s documentary series, Independent Lens, on January 19, 2010.


Phoning It In: A Digitized Lecture-Performance On The History Of Music And The Telephone, By The Killer Apps, Kembrew Mcleod, L. Glass Dec 2008

Phoning It In: A Digitized Lecture-Performance On The History Of Music And The Telephone, By The Killer Apps, Kembrew Mcleod, L. Glass

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.