Articles about Sonic Outlaws (a documentary about the culture-jamming collage band Negativland’s legal war with the rock group U2 over Negativland’s appropriation of U2’s music in their sociopolitical, satirical music), Tribulation 99: Specters of the Spectrum, and other works and activities of San Francisco culture jammer and self-described “cargo cultist” filmmaker Cliff Baldwin.

File also contains envelope of photographic stills from Tribulation 99 and press materials for same; two handwritten notes from Baldwin; and a Village Voice feature on “fiction in nonfiction films,” which includes a section on Baldwin’s Tribulation 99 and Sonic Outlaws.

Also included in file are calendar flyers announcing screenings at Marshall Weber’s underground cinema, video-art gallery, and low-cost, artist-run community video-art training and production facility, ATA (Artists’ Television Access), on Valencia Avenue in San Francisco.

Articles related to CBS lawsuit against filmmaker-satirist Phillip D. Patiris, producer of “award-winning video satire, The Iraq Campaign 1991.” The lawsuit raised issues of Fair Use, which were of interest to Baldwin and Weber, whose appropriation art and culture-jamming movies pushed the envelope of intellectual-property law)

A flyer for the Bureau of Inverse Technology, a “tactical media” group that, according to the website Monoskop, was formed in 1992 and “exists in geographic dislocation (Melbourne, San Francisco, and Berlin). Its geography reinforces the ongoing distance-operation of BIT's experiments and other technological diversions. BIT questions the safety of the corporate imagination and its design upon our technological futures.” (http://www.bureauit.org/; http://www.vdb.org/artists/bureau-inverse-technology).