Copyright is still a very arguable point. The Copyright Law today still have not point out exactly the border between making a remix or infringing an intellectual property. The Copyleft manifesto (AntiCopyright) defence that all the Copyright Law are wrong and they should not exist. On the other hand, being a designer myself, I would not be happy when my work is taken away from me and credited to someone else. But then again, I do think the Copyright Law restricts the creativity of designers, or students who cannot afford it. Our group want people to approach the issue in a different way. We are on neither side so there will not be any ideas imposing on anyone. What we are trying to do is to make people think for themselves. When the issue is affecting personal possession, people will act more truly. And nothing else is more personal than your own image, how you represent yourself.
How would you feel when you see someone else walking down the street, having your face on?
There are millions of music sound tracks and movies illegally downloaded daily over the Internet. People might be aware of the copyright of the file but then ignore to avoid end up paying a large amount of money. To them, those are just some sounds or movies, but to the producer, they are like their own children. The best way to make people realise and respect is to take the most personal item one can have: the face . How would you feel when you see someone else walking down the street, having your face on?
The main aim is to stimulate the audience to think about Copyright as well as Piracy, Imagine to live in a world where the most personal thing to you, your image, your voice, your fingerprint, all the exclusive possessions to define who you are is stolen. This is when people realise the true value of copyright. Our idea is to demonstrate the situation for user to think about it. In order to do it, firstly, we came up with the idea of having a website, where you upload your image and you can see how people change your face. There will be an interface where the Processing is made to detect
your face. Your face is be placed on someone else’s body or vice versa, when people use your image and do whatever they want to it. Secondly, audiences will see their image being used without their permission in films the same way when they illegally download movie online. We made a proposal video to vaguely show how the outcome will be.