RedjackRyan
02-05-2007, 03:10 PM
From Dslreports.com
In the United States, the MPAA has used copyright crusading ferrets (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/51912) and roleplaying (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/mpaa.html) in U.S. classrooms to teach kids about intellectual property. The programs have been heavily criticized for teaching only the company perspective, and not informing kids about things such as fair use or DRM-free business models (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/79744). In Canada it was "Captain Copyright" -- though their project ran into trouble when Internet users noticed that the website lifted certain content (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1286) from Wikipedia, and there was already a Captain Copyright (http://patpot.com/projpot/?p=10) in Singapore. Now Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/05/rip_captain_copyrigh.html) points out that they've decided to scrap (http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Default.aspx) the Captain Copyright idea, because "the current climate around copyright issues will not allow a project like this one to be successful."
In the United States, the MPAA has used copyright crusading ferrets (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/51912) and roleplaying (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/mpaa.html) in U.S. classrooms to teach kids about intellectual property. The programs have been heavily criticized for teaching only the company perspective, and not informing kids about things such as fair use or DRM-free business models (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/79744). In Canada it was "Captain Copyright" -- though their project ran into trouble when Internet users noticed that the website lifted certain content (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1286) from Wikipedia, and there was already a Captain Copyright (http://patpot.com/projpot/?p=10) in Singapore. Now Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/05/rip_captain_copyrigh.html) points out that they've decided to scrap (http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Default.aspx) the Captain Copyright idea, because "the current climate around copyright issues will not allow a project like this one to be successful."