The California school system is the back yard (actually front yard) of both
Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons.
From the message on the web site, the WMF is a
"nonprofit charitable
organization dedicated to encouraging the growth,
development and
distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing
the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge."
Inside a California public school, the WMF should indeed have an interest
in making sure that students using Wikipedia don't think to themselves that
using such material is "stealing" and that someone is expecting to be
"paid."
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Andrew Lih
<andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'd be OK if they simply gave some space in
the training materials to
talk
about public domain, free licenses and fair use.
That's not likely to
happen given who's in control of those lesson plans.
You're still just arguing about the correctness of the material. I agree
that this curriculum is stupid and misleading, but that doesn't explain why
the WMF should care enough to make a statement, or even continue
discussion, about it.
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
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