Dan Bull - Robocopyright lyrics

It's difficult to picture some enemies
Unless we give them an identity
The newest entity we've got to fight
Is Article 13, I call it "Robocopyright"

I've been doing music on the
Net for two flipping decades
Even before YouTube, on a Geocities webpage
And every time I see
The regulations get changed
It's harder for creatives to make it
So, yes, I'm enraged! (Wah)
Look at my track record, I put a lot of time
Into coming up with tracks
Records and dropping rhymes
On the fight to democratize copyright
To shine a spotlight on Anonymous and Occupy
I took a bit of time off to rap about games
But now
I'm back and I'm not backing out again
Passing out castigations and patting
Down your claim no matter how you obfuscate
Your rationale's insane
Maybe you'll get the picture when I
Smack you out the frame
Because I don't want to see the
Internet blacking out for shame
But that's what's happening now, yet again
A threatening mechanism checking on
Everything you say

All hail Robocopyright
Yeah, our great leader! (Freedom)
I'd rather my router wasn't changed
To a rate meter all hail Robocopyright
Our great leader! (Freedom)
All hail Robocopyright our great leader!

MEP's have voted and I
Don't like their decision
I'd diagnose it as a nightmare condition
Of a quite rare position
Where we can't upload any
Kind of copyrighted clip
Without their permission
Now it seems pretty good if you
Just look at the surface
But peep under the hood
The engine isn't fit for purpose
And if we still don't trust AI in Teslas yet
Then pray
Why would we let it suppress the net?
And lest we forget SOPA and ACTA
The Digital Economy Act and every tactic
The copyright lobbyists lob at us hobbyists
The obfuscating confidence tricks
Are pretty obvious (Great)
They make it sound like
It's benefiting small creators (Great)
To make them all successful ever
More for all the ages
But look at labels and the
Way they've always treated artists
(not well)
If you can't see they won't change
You need new glasses
It isn't about creative control, nah
It's about controlling creatives
For cold cash
They want money for old rope, it's old hat
It's an old trope
Anybody could have told that
We're surrounded by constant IP
Imagine real life with Content ID
A conglomerate deciding what your eyes see
When there's nothing else left
They'll copyright me

(Freedom) why bother with a doctor?
You've got a faith healer (Freedom)
Acting like a god but, you're a lay preacher
(Freedom) hey, Jesus
Save me 'cause I don't need a gatekeeper
(Freedom) 'Till I'm at the heavenly gates
And meeting Saint Peter

All hail Robocopyright our great leader!
(Freedom) you're never gonna drain the swamp
If you wade deeper all hail Robocopyright
Our great leader! (Freedom)
All hail Robocopyright our great leader!

Do you trust the judgement of an algorithm
To look at everything you touch
And make a sound decision?
To value satire or parody
And tell the difference?
Or controlled by copyright trolls
We know they're well malicious
It's already tough enough to make a parody
Some of us have given up
Because of copyright brutality
Cash grabbing companies take
Money for morality knowing full well they're
Falsifying the legality
As if it wasn't bad enough
Already with net neutrality
They've done it again
It's the definition of insanity
How can we trust a robot
To know what's permissible?
That only sees the content
But context's invisible
It's risible, derisible
Befitting of our ridicule
At least it would if the
Reality wasn't so miserable
Every single picture you submit
Will be conditional
Article 11's even restricting
What is clickable it's vulnerable to abuse
Commercial and political
Like unelected politicians slipping
Us Rohypnol so, if you all care about it
Make people aware about it
Get on the phone, get on the web
Get on the air and shout it!

All hail Robocopyright our great leader!
(Freedom) cutting off the trailers so you
Can't see the main feature
All hail Robocopyright our great leader!
(Freedom) all hail Robocopyright
Our great leader!

It's difficult to picture some enemies
Unless we give them an identity
The newest entity we've got to fight
Is Article 13, I call it, "Robocopyright"
It's difficult to picture some enemies
Unless we give them an identity
The newest entity we've got to fight
Is Article 13, I call it, "Robocopyright"