“National Barbie-in-a-Blender Day”

Freeculture.org, an international student movement, is organizing the “National Barbie-in-a-Blender Day” Campaign to support free speech rights.

The project was inspired by the legal case involving a lawsuit filed by Mattel against artist Tom Forsythe.

The Forsythe case highlights the increasing challenges faced by those who wish to comment on popular icons, symbols, or cornerstones of culture, most of which are copyrighted by large corporations. “If you want to talk about the problems with society, all of the widely recognized figures are copyrighted,” says Nelson Pavlosky of Freeculture.org. “In the past, cultural icons belonged to everyone.”

Freeculture.org has launched an official site for the National Barbie-in-a-Blender Day project. People are invited to submit artistic pieces inspired by Forsythe’s “Food Chain Barbie” series to blended@barbieinablender.org until the opening of the online gallery on July 27th.

Via Free Culture.