OpenSourceCinema.org has organized the Copyright Criminals project, now a few months old, to satirize the criminalization of everyday acts. By asking individuals (who generally don’t identify with criminality) to photograph themselves in the style of a mug shot, they aim to portray the intellectual property regime as an invasive, authoritarian, yet outmoded force.
Submit your own photograph on the Open Source Cinema website, where they explain more about the motivations behind the effort:
The current copyright climate makes us all copyright criminals. From trading music between friends, making backup copies of DVDs, an iPod party, a YouTube mashup – its all copyright infringement, and it’s all against the law.
So – are you a copyright criminal?
Open Source Cinema has made use of the photos submitted in their awareness raising videos, like the one below:
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