[Wikimedia-l] Planned school curriculum by MPAA

[Andrew Lih]

It has something to do with countering falsehoods and educating folks about
the full range of content rights.

Their 2nd grade materials state:
"Property comes in many forms: when we buy a book, we own that book. It’s
our property, but we don’t own the right to reproduce that book and then
sell it or give it away. That’s stealing."

Um, no. A Creative Commons SA book, a public domain work or expired
copyright work can indeed be reproduced. And it's not stealing.

"We are careful to acknowledge the work of authors and creators and respect
their ownership. We recognize that it’s hard work to produce something, and
we want to get paid for our work."

No, not all people want to get paid for their work.


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.





On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I disagree that this is simply "political."
>
>
> This doesn't answer my original question. What does this have to do with
> WMF? Wikipedia does not own any public schools in California, nor will
> Wikipedia be affected by this curriculum should it be implemented. The only
> similarity is that is has something to do with knowledge, which is
> extremely vague.
>
> *-- *
> *Tyler Romeo*
> Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
> Major in Computer Science
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