THE Analogue Only Protocol ('AOP') is a creator-designated marque which artists and makers can add to their signature on an artwork to say that this particular piece should NOT be photographed, digitised, scanned, uploaded online, electronically reproduced, or used for AI training datasets, or otherwise copied into digital systems.
The AOP is an expression of artistic autonomy, consent, analogue preservation, and cultural heritage, as well as an economic and spiritual gesture.
It's been created by artists and volunteer activists helping to demarcate the digital and analogue worlds, and they are now lobbying law-makers and Tech.
The movement is not anti-digital but about preserving choice. It resonates with Walter Benjamin's 1930s thinking.
Non-digital copying, for example by sketch, tracing, or entirely anlogue photography/printing is fine. The test is: are digital processes used?