Freedom of Expression (6 Min Preview)

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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. for more info:
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[GameSoundGuy]

The funny thing about Art is that it's very definition is the symbolic representation of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and what have you, during a certain time and place, or environment, and expressed through a medium or media.

[GameSoundGuy]

Now, what is one's environment if not the culmination of all influential objects, people, ideas, and other cognitive concepts? Because we live in a world that is consistently surrounded by other people with their own thoughts and expressions, their expressions influence and become our own. Name any artwork, idea, invention, or otherwise and you will find that the person or way in which it was made was influenced by someone or something else.

[GameSoundGuy]

Edison was not actually the first person to come up with the light bulb, and rock music did not merely appear out of thin air. In fact, if there were a copyright on raw materials, we wouldn't be able to construct boats or bridges or even buildings without fear of lawsuit. Laws themselves were based off of other ideas--our entire constitution was a response to the British Parliament--the language we used to write it, pieced together from generations and generations of structured languages.

[Da Kat]

Anyone not seeing the corporate extinction of our constitutional rights has been asleep for the past thirty years. Only idiots babble about the "piracy" of intellectual property and are incapable of thinking for themselves, nor are they able to judge what's best for them or their society. They need to step back into our history and read what our forefathers intended instead of mouthing off about their opinions on art and how it's not art if it's "copyrighted material".

[Eceoes]

The Stay free movement sounds like crap, and the "illegal art" exhibit just looks like a collection of trashy art.

Real art does not need copyrighted material.

If someone used a part of ANOTHER ARTIST work in their art, that would be STEALING ART. How different is it from stealing from the big bad evil cooperation???

[Eceoes]

Copyrights and intellectual property is IMPORTANT to society.

More crap being spewed out by the media education foundation.

If you make some form of art or control some kind of media, would you be angry if some moron USES what you created and benefits from that for this person's own agenda???

To them all Corporations are all evil and want to oppress poor us.

The idea of using copyrighted cartoon character to include in art is bad art to begin with.

[Ulrna]

I never understand why copyright should break down the constituional rights!

Greed vs. Freedom of speech!?

[Hopeful71]

So did the makers of this film have to pay for using Happy Birthday to You from the CLIP of Hoop Dreams?

[AplG7Rocks]

LONG LIVE THE FREEDOM REVOLUTION!!! -the old dude from Akira-