[Wikimedia-l] Planned school curriculum by MPAA

[Tyler Romeo]

What exactly does this have to do with the WMF? Just because we encourage
open sharing of data doesn't mean we need to comment on every political
debate that shows up on the news.

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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:21 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 September 2013 17:42, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/
> >
> > “This thinly disguised corporate propaganda is inaccurate and
> > inappropriate,” says Mitch Stoltz, an intellectual property attorney
> > with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who reviewed the material at
> > WIRED’s request.
> >
> > “It suggests, falsely, that ideas are property and that building on
> > others’ ideas always requires permission,” Stoltz says. “The
> > overriding message of this curriculum is that students’ time should be
> > consumed not in creating but in worrying about their impact on
> > corporate profits.”
> >
> >
> > I suggest we see if WMF commenting, possibly in a blog post or
> > similar, would help avert such anti-sharing foolishness.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
>
> Might not be a great idea
> Its an improvement on previous attempts (to start with It doesn't appear to
> violate the GFDL) and we would actually benefit from our uploaders having a
> working knowledge of copyright. Knowing all the exceptions is something
> best left to more experienced users.
>
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> geni
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