Eyes in the sky: why drones should not be banned

New legislation may outlaw the use of drones by artists – just when robot aircrafts and their aerial stunts are really taking flight

We all have the right to a drone of our own. Admittedly, if everyone flies robot aircraft, the skies will get very full, and some drones are large enough and can go high enough to worry civil aviation authorities. But a drone equipped with a camera is an amazing perspective-shifting device that allows anyone to see the world in a new way.

American artists who make use of drones – from graffiti artists to anarchistic scrutineers of the security state – are worried that new regulations to be submitted to Congress by the Federal Aviation Administration later this year will make it impossible to use a drone to spray paint from above or make a video of the US-Mexico border.

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