The Politics of Intellectual Properties -- A SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST-EDITED BY TED STRIPHAS & KEMBREW MCLEOD -- Articles -- STRATEGIC IMPROPRIETIES: CULTURAL STUDIES, THE EVERYDAY, AND THE POLITICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES: INTRODUCTION /Ted Striphas & Kembrew McLeod -- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE /Adrian Johns -- INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE (BUT IS EVERYWHERE IN CHAINS) /McKenzie Wark -- YOUR SECOND LIFE? GOODWILL AND THE PERFORMATIVITY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN ONLINE DIGITAL GAMING /Andrew Herman, Rosemary J. Coombe & Lewis Kaye -- REALITY© AND VIRTUAL REALITY©: WHEN VIRTUAL AND REAL WORLDS COLLIDE /Steve Jones -- EARLY CINEMA’S HEYDAY OF COPYING: THE TOO MANY COPIES OF L'ARROSEUR ARROSE (THE WATERER WATERED) /Jane M. Gaines -- MUSIC FOR NOTHING OR, I WANT MY MP3: THE REGULATION AND RECIRCULATION OF AFFECT Gilbert B. Rodman & Cheyanne Vanderdonckt -- RIDICULING THE ‘WHITE BREAD ORIGINAL’: THE POLITICS OF PARODY AND PRESERVATION OF GREATNESS IN LUTHER CAMPBELL A.K.A. LUKE SKYYWALKER ET AL. V. ACUFF-ROSE MUSIC, INC. /David Sanjek -- OUT OF SIGHT AND OUT OF MIND: ON THE CULTURAL HEGEMONY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (CRITIQUE) /Eva Hemmungs Wirten -- AFTERWORD; CRITICAL INFORMATION STUDIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC MANIFESTO /Siva Vaidhyanathan -- JUST SAY NO: N EG AT IV L AN D'S NO BUSINESS /Patricia R. Zimmermann -- Notes on contributors -- Notes for contributors.