CALLING ALL ARTISTS, ROCKERS, AND CREATIVE TYPES
Stay Free! is organizing an exhibit, to take place this fall in New York, of works that appropriate copyrighted or trademarked material. The event shall be known as "Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age." Perhaps the biggest name to throw out here is Negativland (who will be participating, yes), but we're looking for things in all media: zines, collages, audio, film -- anything that flouts intellectual property law. If you're not quite sure what I mean, see http://www.illegal-art.org for a couple examples.
If you could recommend some exceptional work along these lines, or if have created something yourself, please contact us at stay.free at verizon.net. Or just send material to Stay Free! P.O. Box 306 Prince Street Station, New York, NY 10012. Items will not be returned, so please don't send originals. Thanks.
The Illegal Art exhibit is being held in honor of _Eldred v. Ashcroft_, a Supreme Court case that will be heard in the fall. The case challenges the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright act, which extended copyrights another 20 years to benefit Disney et al. For more info: http://eldred.cc
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST:
Should the moon be off-limits for commercial developers? No way, says the Moon Society...
From the Wall Street Journal. http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/moon.html
"Yasser Arafat Potato Chips Unveiled" http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-egypt-arafat-chips0528may28.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines
"Workers Contend Coke Sent Old Soda to Minority Areas" * http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020521/ap_on_re_us/coca_cola_allegations_1&printer=1 "Though Coca-Cola workers say that the drinks were as much as 30, 60 or sometimes even 90 days out of date, none contend that they posed much of a health risk. Soda can be old enough to grow mold without causing any acute illnesses. But soda past its expiration date goes flat and loses much of its taste. So the real issue, the workers argue, is one of basic fairness." [* This is the New York Times headline, not the AP one ]
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