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Information wants to be very, very cheap.

Fair Use Is Not Abuse

Cypherpunks: "...it's not just a bad idea, it's the law." That's exactly it.

ObSticker:
- "FAIR USE (heard the word?)"
- "Stop the corporate copyright juggernaut!" (surrounded by various company names, or next to a graphic of a huge death-giving crushing vehicle artistically made out of the words, "Disney," "Sony," "MPAA," etc.)

For a certain crowd: "If Moses had Disney's copyright protection, there wouldn't be a New Testament."

If we're voting, then I like the one by Paul Schreiber "some people learned to share in kindergarden. the rest went to work for the MPAA."

Otherwise how about these:

If you can read this, You're violating Disneys restrictions on vision.

Tougher copyright laws? What kind of a Mickey Mouse idea is that?

I can't reproduce! My mother owns my copyright.

And last but not least the ever useful:

Go to hell Disney!

The ad says "Own it on Disney DVD!" not "Licence it for use on MPAA approved DVD players!"

(Year 2000 in review.)
Votes for Bush: 50 Million
Votes for Gore: 50 Million
Napster Users: 57 Million

Ask not what Disney can do for Senator Hollings; ask what Senator Hollings can do for Disney.

Howzabout: "This advocation of fair use rights is copyright 2002, Disney Corp."

Target the pro-wrestling fans:

"Whatcha gonna do when the [MPAA|RIAA] runs wild on you?"

"It's only Fair Use"

I love kickstart's use of "EFF-ing", rev it up.

and as an old time VietNam War protestor: "US out of my CD burner" is awesome!! Off the Mouse, Up Against the Open Source, Mother-EFFer and so on.

I nominate this one:

"What is the 'EFF'ing problem with information freedom?"

Andae -- I was parodying the "it's not just a good idea, it's the law" phrase by moving the "just" to the second part of the clause. Saying "It's not a bad idea" conveys the wrong idea; so unless you were suggestiong "It's not just a bad idea, it's the law" I don't understand your comment.

Other ideas.

Free use of this sticker restricted until 2097.

(This sticker intentionally left uncopyrighted.)

If copyright retroactively lasted as long as Disney wanted, they'd own Hans Christian Anderson several billion dollars.

Uncopyrighted material. Share and enjoy.

Remember when companies competed by building better products, instead of better lawsuits?

Over the past 26 years, Congress has extended copyright on corporate works by 39 years, and shows little sign of stopping.

Benjamin Franklin - Founding Father, Statesman, and Book Pirate.

FIGHT THE MOUSE

MP3 IS NOT A CRIME

MY CDS, MY BUSINESS

US OUT OF MY CD DRIVE

Edited by author 06-11-2002 10:39 PM
I like poster #17's (Cypherpunk's) second one, but "bad idea" instead of "good idea." I also like #'s two and four in the posting itself, with the last having the biggest meme potential (depending on the graphic). The key here is viral education: if people everywhere who've never thought too deeply into the copyright chasm, or who just aren't familiar with law, start asking their friends, "Hey, what's 'Fair Use'?" then we start getting an _informed_ Annoyed Majority instead of just the latter.

FAIR USE HAS A POSSE!!!
(and we need a funky two-part subtitle for it. I suggest "Bigger than Sony" as one part)

"The information wants to be $18.98." -- Hilary Rosen

"I'm not a consumer, I'm a free man"

"(Watch|Listen|Play|Live) Free Or Die"
 -- on a New Hampshire plate, of course

"Fair Use Freedom Fighter"

"Put the *rights* back into Copyrights"

"Jack Valenti went up the Hill
 to squash a lot of rights.
 Let's knock him down, with a frown,
 and win the fair use fight."

Copyright: Play nice or you'll lose it.

Music doesn't come from stores, it comes from people.

You know, people used to make their own fun.

Have you kissed your CD burner today?

'EFF' the World!

What is the 'EFF'ing problem with information freedom?

The above are thoroughly tongue-in-EFFing-cheek :)

Edited by author 06-11-2002 07:20 PM
Copyright is theft.

"some people learned to share in kindergarden. the rest went to work for the MPAA."

I'm not up on my slogans so all of these may have been used already...

Intellectual property is neither.

This message cannot be reproduced without permission.

Free Pooh!

Your copyright isn't worth violating.

I © <dog's head>, NY, anything you'd normally heart...

This sticker under copyright until 2097[*].
[*] Or later, if Congress extends it /again/.

Overly long copyright. It's not a good idea, it's just the law.

The proper term is "infringement", not "piracy".

"...by securing for *LIMITED TIMES*..."

Code doesn't steal content, pirates steal content.

Content wants to be free. (in less than 75 years)

After 75 years, the Mouse wants to be free.

My music, my way.

I'm a customer, not a consumer.

EFF went to court, and all I got was this lousy laptop sticker.

Zero Marginal Cost !=> Infinite Profit

Blank CD: $0.15 Music CD: $15.00 MP3s: Priceless

MPAA: The Buggywhip Union of the New Millenium

Cheer up the Melancholy Elephants
(reference to a SF short story by (I think) Spider Robinson)

GPL: A platform for the shoulders of giants (come stand on it!)

from someone's /. post a while back:

when turing machines are outlawed only outlaws will have turing machines

Well, there's always the incredibly cheesy

I (heart) Fair Use

but it's probably been copyrighted.

Down with Disney Laws
Copyright This!

or for the more moderate (like me)

Copyright Limit, Not Knowledge Limit
Copyright (not equal) Ultimate Right

"free the weed!"

Edited by author 06-11-2002 05:38 PM
"some people learned to share in kindergarden, Some people just threw temper tantrums"

I like free as in beer/ speech, and innovation is not a crime.

Howzabout "The Mouse wants to break your computer." Or something of the like...

Get your laws off my music (to steal from another movement)
Serial rights are for serial thieves
Kill the Rat
art is not a commodity
First they take your cd players, then your guns (gotta work all ends of the ideological spectrum)
Git yer hands off my mp3s
These are dumb, but may lead to something better

I also want one of Jack Valenti dressed as Uncle Sam pointing out at the reader with the caption:

"The MPAA owns you!"

in h4X0r speak.

Edited by author 06-11-2002 04:41 PM
To extend on the post below:

"Technology is not a crime"

Having just read "Anarchism Triumphant" I'd like to suggest the obvious:
"Resist the Resistance"

Don't thank me...vote for it!

To borrow from Santa Cruz Skateboards:

"Innovation is not a crime"

I want a 'Code is speech' sticker from the EFF

How about a set of 2: "Free as in Beer" and "Free as in Speech"

-phil

"boucher gets it! how about you?" with this pic :)

fair use speech

How about,

Big Media Wants
to Force You
To Read This

I'll mull over it for a bit. All I can think of at the moment is "Big Content Ate My Balls".