[Wikimedia-l] Planned school curriculum by MPAA

[geni]

On 25 September 2013 19:33, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,


The course covers creative commons.


> a public domain work or expired
> copyright work can indeed be reproduced. And it's not stealing.
>

Varies. what can catch you out there is that it may be possible to
copyright typography (in the UK that copyright lasts for 20 years).



geni