Artist’s don’t like to play by the rules in general, but if they ignore copyright they also need to find a way to fly under the radar. Which in turn can diminis

Artist’s don’t like to play by the rules in general, but if they ignore copyright they also need to find a way to fly under the radar. Which in turn can diminish the visibility of what they do. So there’s a practical impetus for getting to know these rules. The book is indeed full of practical advice on how to work within them. But in doing so, it also explains the paradoxes of copyright, and I hope, sows the seeds for a more critical attitude towards it. You obviously already have a critical attitude, but for most artists it’s not so pronounced, and also more ambiguous: many artists are quite happy to support copyright, as long as it protects their work, however, they’re not quite so happy with copyright protecting the work of others when they want to use it as part of their own. I hope the readers challenge their intuitions a bit.