Our cookbook, Recipes for a Digital Revolution, features 10 inspiring digital rights campaigns from Latin America in the form of recipes.
Objective: To object to an unjust copyright claim by displaying the ease and beauty of hacking and remixing culture in the digital age.
Serving: Unlimited
Ingredients:
- The complete works of a national writer in digital form
- A random poem generator that remixes verses
- A catchy hashtag
- Outraged literary communities
Cooking directions:
Drum up support for a person accused of copyright infringement for a literary experiment involving the work of a national writer. Enable anyone to remix and share a randomly generated poem based on verses by the same author as an act of dissent. Generate public debate.
Who did this?
A popular campaign for justice (#YoBorges) ensued when the widow of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges filed suit against another writer, Pablo Katchadjian. The result? Case dismissed!
When? 2015
Link: Yoborges.com.ar
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