By: Eva Weinmayr and Andrea Francke
London, UK: AND Publishing, 2011
Pages: 92
Dimensions: 5 3/4” x 8 1/2”
Cover: softcover, with die cut and index card with a hole punched in it
Binding: rubber band
Process: photocopied
Color: b&w
Edition Size: unknown
ISBN: none


The Piracy Project is an international publishing and exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and practical implications of book piracy and creative modes of reproduction. Through research and an international call for submissions The Project has gathered a collection of more than 150 modified, appropriated and copied books from all over the world.

The collection, which is catalogued online, and in this publication, is the starting point for talks and work groups around the concept of originality, the notion of authorship and politics of copyright. The Piracy Project is an collaboration between AND Publishing and Andrea Francke.

The Piracy Project is not about stealing or forgery. It is about creating a platform to innovatively explore the spectrum of copying, re-editing, translating, paraphrasing, imitating, re-organising, manipulating of already existing works. Here creativity and originality sit not in the borrowed material itself, but in the way it is handled.