It didn't have to be, but it became closer to home because I could identify with it. They won their case because it had to do more with parody, it wasn't so much a collage, it was a reuse of the same melody. It was under protection from tffis clause in the copyright law called Fair Use. For Baldwin, Negativland encapsulated the sheer scale of the problem - the economically led protectionism of the global media industry does not acknowledge the validity of borrowing or adapting sounds for use in collage satire and parody. The accountants don't want to fathom collage.
Copying can only mean bootlegging.
NothIng is quite as affirming as corporate pressure applied to an activist. Instead, it lies dormant in the heart of political unrest. The most boring, turgid, insipid or blatantly tragic films become a source of immense fun and wonder in his hands. The sheer vibrancy of images from forgotren times which show flying saucers, monsters, strangeness is itseif a fascinating entertainment. Baldwin now has a modest studio.