Robocopyright (Acapella)

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

Look at my track record

I put a lot of time

Into coming up with tracks records

And dropping rhymes

On the fight to democratise 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

You 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

Our great leader

Freedom

I'd rather my router

Wasn't changed to 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's 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 and 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

They make it sound like

It's benefiting small creators

To make them all successful

Ever more for all the ages

But look at labels

And the way they've always treated artists

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 all robe

It's old hat

It's an old trope

Anybody could have told that

We've 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

Why bother with a doctor

You've got a faith healer

Acting like a god

But you're a lay preacher

Hey Jesus save me 'cause I don't need a gatekeeper

Freedom

'Til 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 it'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