[Wikimedia-l] Planned school curriculum by MPAA

[Andrew Lih]

I disagree that this is simply "political."

It is very much a culture of ownership -- and a corporate one at that --
being instituted earlier to American kids.

If you remember, it was exactly this problem that inspired Lawrence Lessig
to start Creative Commons in the first place. He observed that there was a
critical inflection point -- when kids are first taught to share and
cooperate and then are flipped to hoard and restrict.

This amplifies hoarding and restricting at the same time kids are taught to
share. I'm glad I moved out of California before this propaganda was
introduced to my kids.

-Andrew





On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> *-- *
> *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.
> >
> > --
> > geni
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