{"id":3621,"date":"2010-05-18T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:20","slug":"fake-protest-against-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2010\/05\/18\/fake-protest-against-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake protest against libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/latefees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-734\" title=\"latefees\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/latefees.jpg?w=217\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2010\/05\/latefees.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2010\/05\/latefees-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>In 2002, after asking themselves &#8220;What would be the most absurd place to picket?  What is the one place  that no one in their right mind would oppose?,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/improveverywhere.com\/2002\/01\/19\/writers-against-piracy\/\">Improv Everywhere<\/a> staged a fake protest, &#8220;Writers Against Piracy,&#8221; at the NYPL. WAP members chanted &#8220;Only crooks &#8230; check out books!&#8221; and said writers should receive royalties from libraries. (This is actually not as crazy as it sounds &#8212; I believe that in some countries authors do receive small payments based on library borrowing records. Anybody know more about that?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, after asking themselves &#8220;What would be the most absurd place to picket? What is the one place that no one in their right mind would oppose?,&#8221; Improv Everywhere staged a fake protest, &#8220;Writers Against Piracy,&#8221; at the NYPL. WAP members chanted &#8220;Only crooks &#8230; check out books!&#8221; and said writers should receive royalties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Wp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}