Former President Trump has made a habit of using artists’ copyright works (songs) without their permission, but that doesn’t make it right. With our election campaigns heating up, the use of copyright material in memes, a work, in this case images, that are copied (typically with minor variations) and go viral, is causing some issues for the Green Party.
I live and work in Auckland, New zealand. I am a serial dabbler in the arts, with an interest in writing, poetry, public speaking and painting. I’m a frequent writer and commentator on intellectual property and information technology issues. I regularly write on and lecture on the art of advocacy, both oral and written. An example is a webinar I gave in 2018 “Mastering Advocacy: Effective Written and Oral Advocacy and How to Maximise Both”. My goal as an artist is to try and capture a little piece of that magnificent natural beauty that exists around us and preserve it in a time capsule so others can ponder and experience the wonder, before it evaporates away into the endless sands of time.
