Printmaking as Social Activism

Printmaking has long been the vehicle to start conversation, spread ideas, and effect change.

What do you want to bring attention to and why is it important? How will you communicate that to your viewers?

Library of Congress list of Social Issues - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005018778.html

United Nations List of Social Issues - http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/ListOfIssues.aspx

University of Maryland List of Social Issues - http://lib.guides.umd.edu/content.php?pid=289162&sid=2391804

Group Activity - As a group create planning for a linocut about a social issue that includes a silhouette (take a photo), a street sign, and at least 3 words (On sign or added). The planning may be created through collaged images scanned and Photoshop Filtered to look like a Linocut. You will have the entire period to create it.

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology

"Transormative" uses of copyrighted materials are almost certain to be deemed fair. Four roughly differentiated interpretations have emerged:

(a) The narrowest interpretation limited the term to parodies

(b) A slightly broader interpretation is that a defendant's work is transformative if and only if it in some way criticizes or comments upon the plaintiff's work.

(c) Some recent opinions have expressly or tacitly adopted a more expansive interpretation, under which a defendant's activity is deemed transformative if it is socially beneficial.

(d) Finally, in several recent cases, courts have taken the view that a defendant's work is transformative if its purpose is different from that of the plaintiff's work.