1. Kembrew McLeod is an American artist, activist, and professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa.
10 Facts About Kembrew McLeod
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Kembrew McLeod is best known as a performance artist or "media prankster" who filed an application in 1997 to register the phrase "Freedom of Expression" as a trademark in the United States.
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Kembrew McLeod received his PhD from University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MA from the University of Virginia, and a BS from James Madison University.
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Kembrew McLeod sought registration of the phrase "Freedom of Expression" as a reflection on the use of intellectual property law to restrict cultural expression in US society.
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On December 10,2007, Kembrew McLeod protested a Bill Clinton event in Iowa City, Iowa, dressed as a robot and demanding an apology for remarks made by Clinton in 1992 about controversial hip hop musician Sister Souljah.
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Kembrew McLeod has written music criticism for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Spin, and Mojo.
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Kembrew McLeod is the coproducer of a 2001 documentary film on the music industry, Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music, which he produced for the Media Education Foundation.
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Kembrew McLeod is currently working on another documentary on the history of sound collage, digital sampling, and intellectual property law, titled Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport.
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Kembrew McLeod participated in the exhibition "Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age," which was hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Artist Gallery.
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Kembrew McLeod is co-editor of a 2006 special issue of the journal Cultural Studies on "The Politics of Intellectual Properties," which is available for free on the internet.