What is kopimi?

Kopimi (pronounced like copy me) is a request that your work is copied, shared, remixed, and enjoyed by all. It allows artists and creators to encourage their audiences to engage with their work in the most personal way: by making it their own, and sharing it with the people important to them.

Kopimi is not a copyright license. For best results, release your work under a license like Creative Commons CC0, and use a kopimi badge (see below) to encourage sharing and remixing.

Why is kopimi important?

The web is built on shared culture, with memes evolving and becoming time capsules for the zeitgeist. Kopimi, serving as an invitation to share and remix, is good for the future of the open web.

For artists and creators, kopimi invites your audience to participate in the evolution of your work. This can be transformative, with surprising new meaning added by contributors.

History of kopimi

The idea of kopimi was created by Ibrahim Botani of Piratbyrån in 2005. The goal was to promote copying, with the symbol serving to encourage copying, mixing or manipulating. Kopimi was quickly embraced by file-sharing communities as it was well-aligned to their ideologies. In 2010, following the passing of Ibrahim, Piratbyrån disbanded. Kopimi as a movement lives on.

This website is not affiliated with or related to Piratbyrån or any founding members.

Manifesto: POwr, Broccoli and Kopimi

In February 2009, as reported by TorrentFreak, the team operating The Pirate Bay released a manifesto titled POwr, Broccoli and Kopimi. The manifesto begins, "According to Kopimi all truths can be summarized in one sentence: "The Internet is right." and proceeds to list "100 roads to #g-d", including:

      ☆ 001. Obtain the Internet.

      ☆ 034. Assert, in any context, that the establishment is lagging.

      ☆ 089. Attract international attention by accident.

      ☆ 100. Upload.

The manifesto was released in Swedish and English, with links to view and download below. Note: The torrent files have low seeder activity.

      ⇢ [English] powr.broccoli-kopimi: View PDF | View The Pirate Bay Archive | Download Torrent File

      ⇢ [Swedish] mackt.broccoli-kopimi: View PDF | View The Pirate Bay Archive | Download Torrent File

      ⇢ [Swedish] mackt.broccoli.PROPER-kopimi: PDF Unavailable | View The Pirate Bay Archive | Download Torrent File

This website is not affiliated with or related to the authors of this manifesto.

Kopimism

Kopimism is officially recognized as a religion by the Swedish government. The Missionary Church of Kopimism believes that the search for knowledge, the circulation of knowledge, and the act of copying are sacred. You can learn more in The New Yorker's article: The First Church of Pirate Bay.

This website is not affiliated with or related to the Missionary Church of Kopimism.

Kopimi badges and icons

You can use the below kopimi badges and icons on your work, or make your own. You can also link people to this webpage to learn more about kopimi. Right-click or long-press to save the images for your own use.

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Credits and other information

The current version of this webpage was created by Bad Download as a celebration of an older internet.

The photograph at the top of the page was taken by Alberto Restifo via Unsplash.

The font used on this webpage for the header and headings is Overpass Mono.

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine was very helpful in making this webpage.

This webpage uses privacy-preserving analytics by Cabin. (View Stats)

Many thanks to Ibrahim Botani for creating kopimi and many of the original badges and icons displayed above.