A Protest Idea - Editing Copyrighted Works

[Roze]

I think that it would be a great protest idea to get people against copyright to take copyrighted works and edit them to have messages against copyright in its current form. For example, editing songs to have anti-RIAA messages, or anti-IFPI messages. And things like that.

What do you think?

[Valio]

I haven't though about that yet, but I definitely find an interesting idea. In most countries it's totally legal to make parodies of copyrighted works.

The only thing that comes close to this right now is Weird Al Yankovic's Don't Download This Song

[avtomat_icaro]

My flatmate told me sometihng along the lines that it's also legal to distribute files if they have a different name. So lets say that you have a Metallica album and you want to share it with your friends, you could simply name of Metallicaaaa or something and it would be ok.

I don't know if this is true though, if somebody could confirm this that would be great!

[Valio]

I don't know in which nation you live, but I doubt that there is any law official in a western country who would see something like this as a work of parody.

Maybe here is something implied like "if I want to share a copyrighted file over an open P2P system to close friends (which is considered fair use in most nations), I rename it to some name which I only tell my friends so other P2P users (and copyright infringement investigators) can't find it by a search function [that easily]".
But then again just by that, you can't guarantee that those files don't spread to other people through the open P2P-system. If you are looking for something similar there are closed (=invited-only) P2P-systems freely available

But please make a new thread if you want to discuss this issue further. This one is not intended for that.