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VIDEO INFORMATION |
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DVD:
52 minutes
Colleges and Universities
$250.00
High Schools and Non-Profits
$125.00
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Reviews and Comments
"We have a right to analyze, comment, critique, and even parody our own culture, but we must use existing works in order to do so effectively. This film stands for and justifies the use of preexisting works for legitimate purposes; the filmmakers are certainly in favor of copyright but not the corporate excesses that exist today. Freedom of Expression is well made and would be an excellent addition to any collection containing legal and public policy films..."
Library Journal
"This smartly-made and seriously funny documentary provides an aerial view of the battleground that is today's copyright landscape. Illustrating the comments of many well-known critics of runaway copyright & trademark law with apt audiovisual examples, Freedom of Expression succeeds as an engaging and concrete presentation."
Peter Jaszi | Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University
"It's about time someone made this movie. 700 Americans get sued into penury every month by the record industry. 70 million Americans file-share. Every generation of technology contains more locks to turn our computers into our masters, not our servants. Worst of all: no one seems to even notice as our tools for free speech are being turned into perfect snitches."
Cory Doctorow | co-editor, Boing Boing | author of Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
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Freedom of Expression
Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Includes the popular short film by Eric Faden:
A Fair(y) Use Tale
View the trailer for this film and the DVD extra on You Tube!
In this section:
Summary
Logistical Information
Biographical Summary
Reviews and Comments
Screenings and Festivals
Articles
Summary:
In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) trademarked the phrase “freedom of expression”—a startling comment on the way that intellectual property law restricts creativity and expression of ideas. This provocative and amusing documentary explores the battles being waged in courts, classrooms, museums, film studios, and the Internet over control of our cultural commons. Based on McLeod's award-winning book of the same title, Freedom of Expression® charts the many successful attempts to push back this assault by overzealous copyright holders. Freedom of Expression® is an essential tool for educators, activists, filmmakers, students, artists, librarians, and more.
Logistical Information:
Producer: Kembrew McLeod, author of the book Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the age of intellectual property
Executive Producers: Sut Jhally & Jeremy Earp
Sections:
Intro | Free Speech in the Age of Copyright | Fencing the Cultural Commons | The Rise of the Clearance Culture | Supressing Freedom of Information | Fair Use & Free Speech | Fighting Back
DVD extras includes the popular short film by Eric Faden, A Fair(y) Use Tale
Click here to watch on YouTube
Biographical Summary:
Featured interviews include:
Kembrew McLeod | Communication professor, author of the book Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property and producer of this educational video
Lawrence Lessig | Stanford Law professor; founder, the Stanford Center for Internet and Society; author, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, and Chair, the Creative Commons project
Wendy Seltzer | Intellectual property attorney, and an attorney who helped win the Diebold case
James Boyle | Duke Law professor, co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and author of Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society)
Carrie McLaren | Journalist, activist, and publisher of Stay Free! magazine , and curator of the Illegal Art Exhibition
Siva Vaidhyanathan | Associate Professor of Culture and Communication, New York University, and author, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity
Mark Hosler | Artist, co-founder of the sound collage collective Negativland
Marjorie Heins | Founder, Free Expression Policy Project; fellow, the Brennan Center for Justice and Democracy Program; and co-author of the widely read report Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control
Nelson Pavlosky | Student at Swarthmore College who successfully sued Diebold over the right to publish emails detailing the failure of electronic voting machines, and co-founder of the national student activist organization, Free Culture
Inga Chernyak | Student activist, co-founder the NYU Free Culture chapter
David Bollier | Co-founder of the Washington DC-based advocacy group Public Knowledge; journalist; activist; and author, Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture
Pat Aufderheide | Communication Professor, American University, co-director, the Center for Social Media; and co-author, the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
David Sanjek | Music historian, advisor to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Director of the BMI Archives
Sut Jhally | Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts and founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation
Screenings and Festivals:
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Washington, DC | June 23 & 24, 2007
SIMMONS COLLEGE
Boston, MA | February 26, 2008
Sponsored by The Simmons College chapter of the Progressive Librarians Guild
LUCY PARSONS CENTER
Boston, MA | February 26, 2008
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION
Anaheim, CA | June 28, 2008
Sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Roundtable (IFRT)
NYU
New York | January 31, 2008
Sponsored by Free Culture @ NYU, NYU ACM, and WiNC
Articles:
MEDIA LITERACY: THE MOVIE
Utne Reader | July/August 2007
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