Digital Rights Issues in Art

List of relevant expressions of digital rights issues in artistic form.

DRM

• Interchangeability - video 56 sec- Take a little trip through the history of recording and see how DRM fits into the bigger picture.
• A Real-World DRM - video 2 min 16 sec - What would it be like if we had DRM on real world objects?
• Legally Bound - video 1 min 2 sec
• DRM warning label - A great mockup of what a DRM warning label could look like.
• User Friendly Cartoon - The latest DRM-defeating kit for apple's itunes
• User Friendly Cartoon - Deny Rights to Music lovers
• User Friendly Cartoon - Its irritating as hell when people act like they have rights
• User Friendly Cartoon - DMCA Dont Make Content Accessible
• User Friendly Cartoon - CD ripped, copy again? Thank you for purchasing this album. Note that this CD is copy protected and designed to not function on: long list of things. ......Also note that if you hum this tune we are coming after you. (user types a few commands) CD ripped, copy again?
• User Friendly Cartoon - Music industry suing kids
• User Friendly Cartoon - Sony DRM, rootkit. Our customers are not particularly cooperative are they? No Sir. They made a fuss over the memory erasure ray we wanted to use on them after they had listened to a song too.
• User Friendly Cartoon - DRM, RIAA and fairuse
• User Friendly Cartoon - DRM, Sony, RIAA remind me again why we need DRM?
• User Friendly Cartoon - Sony "Now that EMI has dropped DRM, why shouldn't Sony follow suit?"
• User Friendly Cartoon - Consumer choice enhancement Renaming DRM.
• CRAP, The Movie Vid. CRAP or Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, is a catchier phrase than DRM
• Awesome anti-DRM banners from Militant Geek
• CRAP, The Sequel Vid. Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment
• T-shirt - Magic Censored Numbers ThinkGeek
• Lore Brand Comic - My Laptop [1]
• The Corruptibles Vid 2:12
• Anti-RIAA Propaganda Vid. An amusing and informative bit of propaganda in the fight against DRM
• xkcd on DRM A webcomics message to Sony, Microsoft, the MPAA, the RIAA and Apple
• DRM is Like... A fickr pool full of visual analogies help in explaining why DRM is bad.
• Anti-DRM T-Shirt Designs
• Valentines Day DRM-free compilation

Internet privacy

• User Friendly Cartoon - New Google: Activate Electromagent
• User Friendly Cartoon - Google China
• BLaugh Cartoon - New AOL Privacy Leak
• Pertinent art that explains security vs privacy
• For privacy please wait behind this sign

Software Patents

• User Friendly Cartoon - Software Patent Game
• User Friendly Cartoon - patents, linux, microsoft, goverments
• User Friendly Cartoon - us patent office continues to push the geeks
• "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"
• Help Desk Cartoon - "You've patented hope?"

Net Neutrality

• Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee inventor of the web on Net Neutrality Straight piece to camera no special effects Video 3 mins 49 secs
• The Daily Show Takes on net neutrality Video
• More Daily Show on net neutrality
• Save the Internet! Video 3 mins 59 secs
• The Death of The Internet? Video 6mins 29 secs
• Short Video explaining why network neutrality is an important issue for internet users through a series of short comparisons to traditional utilities Video
• Save the Internet by MobuzzTV Reporter in a chair giving a short report 2 min 43 seconds
• Net Neutrality with Enrique Dans more reporting on net neutrality this time in Europe for MobuzzTV
• Sen. Ted Kennedy supports Net Neutrality 3 min 22 seconds
• A Better Internet Video 31 seconds
• Song: The Broadband sing 'God Save the Internet'
• User Friendly Cartoon - This is UserFriendly.org without Net Neutrality
• User Friendly Cartoon - Congress passes, communications bill
• User Friendly Cartoon - Senator Ted Stevens may never hear the end of comments on his tubes speech
• User Friendly Cartoon - Senator Ted Stevens may never hear the end of comments on his tubes speech part 2
• User Friendly Cartoon - Senator Ted Stevens may never hear the end of comments on his tubes speech part 3
• User Friendly Cartoon - Congress on Net Neutrality Part 1
• User Friendly Cartoon - Congress on Net Neutrality Part 2 Senator Ted Stevens and tubes
• User Friendly Cartoon - Congress on Net Neutrality Part 3 Senator Ted Stevens and the tube-ologist
• User Friendly Cartoon - Congress on Net Neutrality Part 4 You need to read the next cartoon to understand. Part 1. Cablecos and Telcos be granted full rights to prioritize data that flows through their um tubes.
• User Friendly Cartoon - Congress on Net Neutrality Part 5 If they control the data on their pipes they lose common carrier status. (Senator Ted Stevens mentioned)
• BLaugh - Senator Ted Stevens’ InterTubes
• Interview with Vint Cerf, Google's "Chief Internet Evangelist", on Net neutrality 5 min 49 secs
• Moby talks about Net Neutrality Video
• This Spartan Life covering Net Neutrality from the gamers point of view
• The uproariously funny net-video serial "Ask a Ninja" tackles net neutrality
• Rocketboom covering Net Neutrality Video
• Vintage Tooncast covering Net Neutrality video
• We Own The Net very tongue-in-cheek parody. Flash website with videos.
• "Series of Tubes" t-shirt
• Small World Cartoons - Net Neutrality
• Slowpoke Cartoon - Net Neutrality
• Coming Soon: The Web Toll Picture at the top of the page of a toll booth for packets, packets paying more do not get slowed down.
• Simple format but effective Video
• We Are The Web Collection of funny videos telling people to contact their representative and ask for net neutrality.
• Jello Biafra on Net Neutrality & the COPE Act Video 2 min 6 secs
• How a non-Neutral ISP could work image

• List of Videos from save the internet.com
• You Tube have many more videos on Net Neutrality

Trusted computing

Trusted Computing an animated short by Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel

Wire Tapping

• Newsday flash animation and song about NSA wire-tapping

Electronic Voting

• The Daily Show on E-Voting - Video: 6 min 39 sec
• Florida Elections Again? "Count All Votes" - Video: 51 sec. If your vote does not count, you doesn't count. You don't count.
• e-Voting: The silent decline of public control - Video: 59 min. The voting machines widely used in Germany's recent elections fail to follow both fundamental democratic principles and German legal requirements. Highlights of a recent Irish report on security issues of these machines will be provided.
• Princeton University Demonstration Videos of Flaws in Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machines - Video: 9 min 28 sec
• Mark Fiore on Digital Democracy
• CNN - Democracy at Risk - Transcript
• Hacking Democracy HBO Special on Voting Machines - Video: 1 hr 21 min 57 sec
  • Hacking Democracy part 1
  • Hacking Democracy part 2
  • Hacking Democracy part 3
  • Hacking Democracy part 4
• Disappearing checks and balances - Video: 1 min
• Chimpanzee alters the audit logs - Video
• Electronic Vote Machine Security - Video: 7 min. Professor Avi Rubin demonstrates how electronic vote machines can be compromised.
• Mark Fiore on Digital Democracy - Animation
• Magicvote Black box voting - Cartoon
• Clippy the paper clip helps you vote - Cartoon
• Don't worry the touch-screen voting machines are going to make this election easier to steal than the last one - Cartoon
• I'm a touch screen electronic voting machine - FoxTrot Cartoon
• Diebold blue screen of death - Cartoon. $10 / vote - insert card and pull lever
• Deja Vu All Over Again - Cartoon, Miami Herald
• The Hazards of online voting - Cartoon
• Texas A Diebold representative talks about various error and flaws in e-voting systems with Texas public representatives - Video, from Texas Safe Voting
• Diebold technology: Its a secret. Get over it - Parody poster. Shows HAL 9000 saying "I'm sorry Dave. That information is protected under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
• At Diebold we cook the results so you don't have to - Parody poster. Shows sausages on a grill.
• Diebold. Taking America paperless - Parody poster. Shows picture of a used empty toilet roll, with the words 'Voter roll'.
• Digital Democracy - In Touch-Screen Technology We Trust - Flash animation. Summary of some of the bigger blunders.
• E-voting and e-passports - Cartoon. "I have to show my hacker-susceptible passport in order to cast my ballot on a security-challenged machine?" "Yes... We're trying to prevent voter fraud ..."
• Electronic Voting Machines - Cartoon. "Think its secure?" "I'm not sure - after I voted, I was offered millions in a Nigerian bank account!"
• e-voting soldiers - Cartoon. "I'm worried about the prospects for democracy in Afghanistan." "They're getting those e-touch-screen voting machines too?"
• The New York times - Warning your vote may be lost, destroyed, miscounted ... or hacked - photo image

Data Retention

• David Rooney’s Irish Times cartoon neatly sums up the problems with data retention

Copyright

• Don't Download This Song Video 3 mins 57 seconds. Once in a while you may feel the urge to break international copyright law...
• User Friendly - The MPAA "Respect Copyrights" activity patch for the boy scouts of America is merely the first step towards the much converted "Who needs consumer rights?" patch
• AllOfMP3.com and the RIAA cartoon part 1
• AllOfMP3.com and the RIAA cartoon part 2

Internet Censorship

• Google China A Yen to Censor. "Tiananmen Square Censorship"? Did you mean 'Cinnamon Square Sensor Chip'?
• Internet Censorship Sorry, a 1st Amendment error has occurred, press for free speech
• No public access to the internet

General

• Orwell (Nineteen Eighty Four)
• Kafka - The Trial
• Banksy [2]
  • http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/04.html
  • http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/05.html
  • http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/02.html
• "To go round" by John Parkes
• "Fitter, Happier" by Radiohead (track 7 of the album OK Computer)
• Ponderosa Puff - Copyright
• The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science--the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same."
  • http://www.rhythmscience.com/
• ACLU surveillance society (Pizza)
• One of the things William Heath does at www.idealgovernment.com is to collect pertinent art. His focus is on public services (welfare, justice, defence, tax, education other public services )in an e-enabled society and he lists art pertinent to that condition. See http://www.idealgovernment.com/index.php/weblog/C39/
• Stop the big brother state

Identity cards

• No2ID's audio re-write of the official Identity Cards video Brought to you by Norwich 2600
• Mark of the Beasts: Ian Brown "No I.D." Video and song 4 min 38 secs
• UK I.D. Cards
• Eclectech [3]
  • Swizz of the Cards
  • The Very Model of a Modern Labour Minister
• NO2IDs video and pictures collection [4]
• 'Integral' track on Fundamentalism album, Pet Shop Boys [5]
• In the Name of Security
• List ID card and privacy cartoons
• Dr Who features brutal Judoon police who act out a dystopian ID registration fantasy, and flatulent Slitheen who take over the UK with lethal ID cards that knock out everyone in Downing Street

In the Firefly episode named "Safe" Simon is estranged from his father due, in part, to his father concerns about how the actions of his son might affect his "permanent profile". In addition, Book is able to keep his identity secret from from his fellow crew members by passing only his ID card to the authorities rather than explaining himself.

Safety Online

• Daily Mail Picnic [6]

Database State

• Having a super giant database holding every citizens personal information is the super natural move forwards image.

Children's Digital Rights

• Think your kids are safe at school? Video 59 seconds
• Not only are you arrested for burglary, you also owe £2.50 for the Noddy book you borrowed 20 years ago cartoon image

FNF The Big Picture

On Saturday 11 October 2008 ORG and No2ID coordinated a giant anti-surveillance community artwork in Parliament Square. Thousands of images of the database state sent in from around the UK by ordinary citizens fed up with Government’s cavalier attitude to their civil liberties were combined to show Parliament what will happen if it continues to allow itself to be frog-marched away from freedom.

Find out more, or download a CC licensed version of The Big Picture used in the event to remix and rework.