Oh So Criminal

Oh so criminal was created as a response to the Australian Government's (in particular the Attorney-General's office) "Fair Use and Other Copyright Exceptions: An examination of fair use, fair dealing and other exceptions in the Digital Age" Issues Paper, provided in May 2005. Instead of writing a wordy submission to the Government I decided to make an example of something that is currently illegal, but should be covered by 'fair use'. This is done by explicitly abusing copyright of easily referenced popular culture audio and video icons.

I'm very impressed with the creativity in this dudes protest. Usually I ignore "terms and conditions", Polices, etc, etc... I'd rather just get on with the show and do what I set out to on the net. Downloading for example: I never read the agreement or terms and conditions, I just tick the box and start downloading. I'm pretty sure a large percentage of internet uses do the same. So this "Fair use" thing is kinda new to me, after reading about it, it pretty much means that you can use copywrite material without permission and the courts decide if the downloaded or uploaded product is illegal or not.

What Keir Smith has done is used this policy against them by using copyright material and abused the hell out of the Australian Government but he's done it in a safe way; by being covered by "Fair use." So I reckon that what Keir Smith is doing is meant to be illegal but has turned it around and made it not illegal by addressing the "Fair use" concept.