Tuesday, March 1st at Seminary Co-op Book Store in
Chicago 7pm

Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos
and Other Enemies
of Creativity
Reading by Kembrew McLeod

Kembrew McLeod, an artist and communications professor
at the
University of Iowa, owns freedom of expression; he was
granted a
trademark for the phrase in January 1998. But in his
sharp and funny
new book, McLeod argues that the growing
commercialization of
intellectual property rights is undermining free
speech, creativity,
and the cultural commons. McLeod examines the effects
of this
increasing privatization in diverse areas, including
hip-hop music and
digital sampling, the patenting of seeds and human
genes, folk and
blues music, visual collage art, electronic voting,
and the Internet
and computer software, and calls on Americans to wake
up before it's
too late.



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