People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it.
They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
There is that tricky issue of ownership and free speech. They own it, and have the right to babble what they like. We have the right to ignore it. What is the problem? You have no control over your eyes Sean? Oh and by the way I am selling t-shirts with your quote on it, made a tidy profit just by telling everyone it was Banksy!
Posted by: Poot | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 02:22 PM
I recognise this writing, where it from?
That sprayed advert is a wink to What Happened staring DeNiro right???
Posted by: Jay333 | Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 10:55 PM