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Captain Copyright Targets Kids
frank249 writes "The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency has set up a copyright education website called Captain Copyright. There is a section for kids with comic books and a section for teachers for grades 1-3, 3-6 and 6-8. An example of a grade 1 class activity: 'Present the following situation to students: Your friend is downloading a song off the Internet. In comes Captain Copyright. Ask: What do you think Captain Copyright will say?
Encourage students to brainstorm. Then hand out (or read) Line Master: Some Copyright Laws.' In Canadian law it is incorrect to download a song unless you pay for it. They also neglect to mention that Canadians pay a tax on blank media that is meant to compensate artists for downloads."
We have a daughter due in July (really! I'm reproducing now...) In a few years I imagine she'll ask "Daddy... who's Captain Copyright?" and I'll say "Sweetie, he's like God." She'll reply "What do you mean, Daddy, all knowing, all powerful and something to be in awe of?" "No dear," I'll reply, "a make-believe thing people in power use against the masses to keep them scared."
Trolling is a art,
*over_the_top reactionary comment follows...* hitler also knew that the best way to change a national mind was to start with the children...
Kadko- *sigh* 156hrs and it looks like the work of a 12yr old
I can see that copyright law is clearly a priority for early education. Not grammar, or mathematics, but intellectual property and coporate interests. I guess all the top execs of the tobacco companies jumped ship to the recording industry so they can keep practicing their "hook 'em while they're young" campaigns.
What Captain Copyright will tell?
Must. Restrain. Laughter. I think even small children are smart enough to realize that "Captain Copyright" is an idiotic idea. Kids don't respect educational cartoon role models in general; I see no reason why "Captain Copyright" will be any different. A generic super-hero with boring powers whose opponents are ordinary people instead of super-villains ... no one is going to find that interesting.
Philosophy.
Legal music baby.. And other cool stuff.
http://archive.org/
http://bt.etree.org/
RIAA sux. Have fun.
Years ago, Phil Foglio did a strip about superhero RPGs in Dragon Magazine, and finished up with "Captain Corporation," a superhero whose powers revolve around product endorsements. Now it looks like they're really bringing that idea around to the real world. Of course, "Captain Copyright" has a sidekick, "Lawsuit Man." They're headquartered in FUD City.
This sig, aah-ah, is comin' like a ghost-sig...
d) Report your friend to the police, collect a bonus check from the RIAA, and watch him spend the rest of his life paying off $1,000,000 in RIAA lawsuits.
OK, so maybe it won't quite be worded that way, but probably something along those lines. Do we really need the RIAA et al creating comic books that encourage kids to report on their friends? What's next, reporting that your neighbour is possibly harbouring an arabic man in his attic (substitute arabic for jewish and step back about half a century, you'll see my point)?
This type of 'education' has no place with our youth. Shame!
requesting full scans of comics
Are these guys sure that "Captain Copyright" doesn't infringe on the "Captain Planet" copyright?
I concur with your post.
If you haven't foed me yet, what are you waiting for?
The kid's problem wouldn't have happened if he just put "By: Me".
Staring at a white background [on a computer screen] while you read is like staring at a light bulb — Maddox
Lei Feng, would it?
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
but that's no excuse for creating a comic that [i]blows[/i] so profoundly.
Seriously, read "the story of Captain Copyright" in the "for kids" section of the website.
What kind of kid is going to enjoy that pile of crap?
This, if anything, is all that "Captain Copyright" ought to say in a place called school (digne de ce nom).
Ofcourse, they don't have "No Child Left Behind." Teachers can also teach enrichment instead of simply math and reading. I cherish the local history and debates in high school. Canadiens can even if they choose *gasp*, have gym.
i wonder what the copyright is on the character? someone should create a site called "Cpt. Copyright" where Captain becomes Cpt. and see if they get in trouble.
Now I'm at a moral quandry... shall I respect the rights of the copyright holders of this work, and wait for an official response, or do I take the story into my own hands, and offer my own idea, and thus take over their precious copywritten characters and story in my own mind?
Damn - I can't help myself...
Sarah: I've got an idea[wink]...
Sarah: Let's pray to Jesus, our Lord and Savior to bring his only begotten Son, Captain Copyright, down upon our enemies, so that they may taste the wrath of holy justice, forever and ever, amen.
Damn... I just broke the spirit of the law... and that's the most important part. Better post anonymously in shame of my actions.
The propaganda is getting blatant. It least this one is not my tax dollars at work. Maybe there's a reason the almighty Canadian dollar coin is referred to as the loonie.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
...but this comic is lame. Look at this page and the previous one. Somebody gets an A just because they didn't use a bootleg version of the textbook? Give me a break.
There is also another page in the copyright comic that seems to confuse one issue (collaborate research and somebody trying to take all of the credit) with copyright law. The comic ended in a cliffhanger after a few pages, but I don't think this comic book is effective at all (not to mention lame), and the comic confuses issues, too.
Since it seems private corporations are now controlling school curriculums, why can't we get some cooler corporate interests involved? Where's Seargent Funbags from Playboy and Corporal Barley from Coors? Let's at least create some drones who know how to have a good time! Is that too much to ask? :)
Boing Boing helpfully points out (SFW) the similarity between the Captain Copyright logo and Slashdot regular goatse.cx (which I will not link).
It is unfortunate for America that history is marching (pretty quickly) away from the foundation of this sector.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
I definitely may be wrong here (never been even close to Canada), but I believe the tax on blank media came out long before music downloads appeared in the radar. Sure, the tax is supposed to compensate for informal, personal copying, by providing some extra revenue to the artists (yeah, right, to the artists... mostly... somewhat... err...). However, I doubt the letter of the law mentions "downloading", which (in this "interesting" world we live in) may make quite a difference.
On their website, under "kids" I looked up the meanings of some words and phrases related to copyright. Guess what's missing from the list. I'll give you a hint, it starts with "Fair" and ends with "use"
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
My God! Second post, and by Godwin's Law this discussion is already over!
Of course this begs the question of will the record companies last until these kids grow up into nice, well-controlled, consumers.
And when did 'hitler' become a lower-case adjective?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
To be given equal time and consideration in class...
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651, 39118537,00.htm
Or has the law changed since 2003?
Captain Copyright vs Captain Caveman
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Captain Copyright will say 'Creative Commons? Wow! I have the same initials as those guys. Have fun downloading, listening to, burning, sharing, and basically doing whatever you want with that music.'
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
Colonel Critical says that Captian Copyright is a stupid idea.
"Everything worth innovating today will go to court tomorrow."
Will Captain Copyright ever conquer the high seas or will the Pirates loot and sink his ship?
I remember Smokey the Bear and that fire hydrant, telling us not to set fires that made sense even to me at that age. Copyright laws? make them fear young maybe they will like your outdated business model... how about Yummy the Cigarette is he at school again?
As pointed out on Boing Boing, Captain Copyright is apparently blessed with the power of copyright immunity. Text on his website appears to be directly lifted from Wikipedia, and of course much of the iconography has been around since before the Captain himself. Maybe the Captain's alter ego is a pirate? Arrrrrr...
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Think! It ain't illegal yet!
George Clinton
Think! It ain't illegal yet!
George Clinton
This is incorrect, the blank media levy was designed to compensate artists for people copying CDs and other recordings. The "Download Question" was not seriously considered at the time the levy was introduced and it is a matter of opinion if it applies to downloads.
Captain Copyright has heroically announced he's suing /. for copyright violation, after the vicious plagiarizers failed to read his site's asinine legal disclaimer and reproduced his valuable intellectual property. Additionally, poster jgaynor will also be sued for talking shit about captain copyright AND linking to his site in the same paragraph. Think that last sentance was hyperbole? Think again:
"permission to link is explicitly withheld from any website the contents of which may, in the opinion of the Access Copyright, be damaging or cause harm to the reputation of Access Copyright."
Holy Nutsack Cap'n Copyright!
More making fun of this ridiculous attempt at a valid legal statement here (disclaimer: not affiliated).
...until someone starts illegally copying this Web site, maybe putting a mirror up on BitTorrent. In fact, I think I'll fire up wget and do it myself right now!
Creative misinterpretation is your friend.
Meanwhile the Captian got an email saying "Read and heed: resistance is futile."
It's a propaganda cartoon, albeit a poor one.
They obviously are trying to get kids when they are young and stop them from downloading ("stealing") copyrighted music when they are older. Except that unlike all of the examples in the cartoons, no one actually looses anything from that and personal profit is not the motivation.
I hope that the kids it is targeted at have enough sense to see through this filth.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4837609090 332617729
hehehe. i'm clever.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
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Is he a real captain? Can Captain Copyright conduct my wedding if I were on his boat?
It's not captain planet but...
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=164
Link goes to a 5.05MB PDF. Sitting there downloading, I thought it must be pretty spiffy.
Nope: 1 page black and white with about 8 lines of typing.
Maybe the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency needs a bandwidth tax, too.
I believe I speak for a lot of people here when I say this:
Fuck Godwin.
From TFA, "A person can download a song off the Internet when they pay for it or get permission."
;), it is NOT illegal to make a copy of music you have downloaded. Quite apart for music that is not copyrighted, even copyrighted music can be shared under fail use restrictions.
The statement is true, but if they had said "A person can ONLY download a song off the Internet when they pay for it or get permission," they would of course be wrong. I have to think the first statement has an implied "ONLY"...
TFA: "A person cannot copy a song that they have legally downloaded (by paying a fee or obtaining permission) for someone else."
Even in a backwards nation like Canada
There is plenty of music in the world that is no longer copyrighted. By international treaty, copyrights expire!
By August 16, 2047, all of Elvis Presley's published works will be in the public domain. Many early recordings from the Jazz era are already in the public domain.
HOW LONG COPYRIGHT PROTECTION ENDURES
From http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
Works Originally Created on or after January 1, 1978
A work that is created (fixed in tangible form for the first time) on or after January 1, 1978, is automatically protected from the moment of its creation and is ordinarily given a term enduring for the author's life plus an additional 70 years after the author's death. In the case of "a joint work prepared by two or more authors who did not work for hire," the term lasts for 70 years after the last surviving author's death. For works made for hire, and for anonymous and pseudonymous works (unless the author's identity is revealed in Copyright Office records), the duration of copyright will be 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter.
Works Originally Created before January 1, 1978, But Not Published or Registered by That Date
These works have been automatically brought under the statute and are now given federal copyright protection. The duration of copyright in these works will generally be computed in the same way as for works created on or after January 1, 1978: the life-plus-70 or 95/120-year terms will apply to them as well. The law provides that in no case will the term of copyright for works in this category expire before December 31, 2002, and for works published on or before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright will not expire before December 31, 2047.
Works Originally Created and Published or Registered before January 1, 1978
Under the law in effect before 1978, copyright was secured either on the date a work was published with a copyright notice or on the date of registration if the work was registered in unpublished form. In either case, the copyright endured for a first term of 28 years from the date it was secured. During the last (28th) year of the first term, the copyright was eligible for renewal. The Copyright Act of 1976 extended the renewal term from 28 to 47 years for copyrights that were subsisting on January 1, 1978, or for pre-1978 copyrights restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), making these works eligible for a total term of protection of 75 years. Public Law 105-298, enacted on October 27, 1998, further extended the renewal term of copyrights still subsisting on that date by an additional 20 years, providing for a renewal term of 67 years and a total term of protection of 95 years.
Public Law 102-307, enacted on June 26, 1992, amended the 1976 Copyright Act to provide for automatic renewal of the term of copyrights secured between January 1, 1964, and December 31, 1977. Although the renewal term is automatically provided, the Copyright Office does not issue a renewal certificate for these works unless a renewal application and fee are received and registered in the Copyright Office.
Public Law 102-307 makes renewal registration optional. Thus, filing for renewal registration is no longer req
ABC's of copyright
Err... that's a bit too wordy for kids, who probably wouldn't be reading about copyright law in that detail anyway. Also, I cannot help but notice that there are no A's or B's.
Maybe it should have a section on how they can pirate stuff, that'd be more useful.
If you say "here goes my karma" I will bite you!!!
This might not be cool but that doesn't mean that stealing is.
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Captain Copyright and all related media are Copyright ©2006 Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, All rights reserved.
"Everything worth innovating today will go to court tomorrow."
When he failed to defend his trademark and it became generic. "Escalator", "Yo-yo", "Shredded Wheat", and now "Hitler" are prime examples of trademarks which have fallen into the public domain through abandonment or poor defense.
Where Hitler went wrong was not through lack of defense (you should have seen his army of lawyers), but through misuse of the Hitler trademark. Where Third Reich productions threw around the name Hitler as though it were a noun they should have used it as an adjective from the start and emphasized it to set it apart from the surrounding text. Using phrases like "Hitler conquered half of Europe" is just asking for trouble. "Hitler® brand World Domination conquered half of Europe" makes it clear what the brand name is and that it is a registered trademark.
Copyright jackasses are marketting their kindergarten-level understanding of intellectual property to actual kindergarteners.
Fuck you. My pony is better than your stupid pony.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
that website is the lamest, funniest thing I've seen in years!
I've printed out some images from the coloring book, and I've going to bring them to work so that my workers can learn that stealing isn't nice and if they don't stop captain copyright won't be proud of them!!!!
freeballer
God love trolling server logs ...
The organization in question has a membership which is almost entirely print media and authors. They have nothing to do with the RIAA or its Canadian equivalent. Given the complexity of the music copyright issue, they should avoid any mention of it. They'll just end up looking stupid and it will hurt their credibility with the kids they're trying to educate.
Actually, if you want a comic book on copyright that is actually good: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/
It is a comic book put together by a couple of law profs and deals with what artists can and can't get away with. It manages to be educational and entertaining. Of course, it's pitched more at university students and not elementary school kids.
god only knows.
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
Just for fun, try the following link.
:-) And maybe it will encourage them to find a more useful and less stupid way to detect "hack attempts" than whether or not there happens to be a question mark somewhere in the URL.
:-)
It will fill up their "hack attempt" logs with silly messages
That or call them up and ask why they're giving out all their copyrighted materials for free. Aren't they compensating the artists per copy!? Why, that's ***STEALING***! And don't anyone try to rationalize it away by pointing out that they got paid *once* for their work--all IP holders deserve compensation any time someone so much as *thinks* about their work, you communist bastards, anything else is rationalizing away a serious felony!
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I know I did
Here are the answers to the Kids Quiz!!
1. You wrote a poem for class. Do you have to register it with the Copyright Board of Canada for your poem to be protected by copyright law? NO!!
2. Each province is covered by the same copyright law. True or false? TRUE!!
3. Your friend got a computer game and you want to download it to your computer. Is this something you may do? NO!! (even if it's freeware or shareware!!)
4. You framily has 3 computers in the house. When you get new software are you allowed to install it onto all of the family's computers? NO!! Unless you have volume licensing with MS, or it's OSS
5. What does "public domain" mean? a) it refers to the items found on the Internet b) it refers to a book found in your local public library c) it means the term of copyright in the work has ended C
6. Can a book title be copyrighted? NO!!
7. Your art teacher asks you to create a drawing and then wants to post your drawing on the school's Intranet. Does the teacher need your permission to do this? YES!! omg he will love you for stirring up shit too
8. In order to have copyright on the short story you just wrote for class, you must be 18 years old and a legal adult. True or False FALSE!!
9. Your school wants to do a mural in teh entry hall to the school and they want to use Curious George. Is it okay to project these two cartoon characters on to the wall to enlarge them and trace around them? NO!!
10. When you buy a book, you own the copyright to that book, and you can loan it out or copy it as you wish. True or false FALSE!!
My favorite...
I am.... Captain Condom!
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
Why is it that Captain Copyright is looking off to the left in so many of these headshots?
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http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Kids/ColouringBook
Hmmmm.
If only Officer Gold could see me now.
"Yes - Once your poem is in a fixed and tangible form, you have copyright in your poem. You do not have to register your creation with the Copyright Board to have copyright."
I'm sure kids will learn tons with these fun quizes and games.
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
what we need is a CAPTAIN COPYLEFT who goes after greedy major labels and stuff. he should protect those who are nearly innocent against the Music And Film Industry Assholes (MAFIA). and he should take those piratebay serverz back...
would be nice if some pirate party started to do this to promote their stuff.
a yeah:
97986 75848
32453 43546
HELLO WORLD
32553 32435 32432 76789 62864 etc. etc.
Captain Planet: Protect the Environment or I will [bleep]ing kill you!!!! Captain Planet!!!!
Captain Copyright: Protect the DMCA or I will [bleep]ing kill you!!!! Captain Copyright!!!!
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
So who is going to pre-release a torrent of all the Captain Copyright Comics?
~ Mooga
This does not beg the question. It may raise the question, but it does not beg the question.
Remember, open source is free as in speech, not free as in bear.
Captain C/The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency,: Please do not sue me, but I copied and pasted the URL into the link above. If this is a violation, have the Swedish police sieze Slashdot's servers.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
Yes, the performances of the songs may be copyrighted, but even that isn't a certainty. There is a Public Domain into which the performing artist may release their performance.
If the tune, lyrics, and performance aren't protected intellectual property then the first grader should call the police and have Captain Copyright arrested for child molestation. Okay, there wasn't any sexual molestation involved, but a man in a skin tight costume who constantly barges in on first graders in their homes will have a very difficult time convincing a jury of that fact.
Don't Copy That Floppy :)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
copyrights, as well as a trademark, I think this is a bad thing.
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Look, why won't Captain Copyright teach them about Fair Use, or the fact that colleges, schools, and universities are exempt from many copyright restrictions, or about public copyrights?
Now, having actually travelled across Canada on a Canada Council Grant, as a playwright and author, I know where some of the money paid by the library system goes. I'm not against copyrights, but let's tell the truth, not a distorted pro-corporate version
[fyi, if you try to look me up in the online database, my legal name is much much longer in Canada and has two hyphens]
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Captian Copyright looks like a rip off Captain America, wonder if the CA Copyright holder will sue the CC copyright holder? Who would win in a fight? Maybe CC is a parody? /br /br& hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
http://images.google.com/images?q=captain+america
Sit... Speak.... Shake.... Good Dog!
Not really. The tax is meant to cover copies made from legitimately obtained originals, as in when your friend loans you his CD or you borrow it from the library. In Canada it has been ruled that the blank media tax covers this and it's legal to copy the CD, whatever the RIAA or whomever may think. I don't think that the download case has been tested.
I agree with the previous poster who pointed out that there is no reason for this to appear in curriculum except private interests. Having them drive curriculum is dangerous and inappropriate.
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Slashdot | BSA Asks Kids to Name Copyright Weasel2 0233
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/11/2
How about "Captain Copyright"(Score:5, Insightful)
by CharonX (522492) on Wednesday August 11, @07:26PM (#9943735)
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How about Captain Copyright?
See how the dauntless Captain Copyright sells out its friend to the BSA for talking about copying software.
Laught when Captain Copyright battles with the fearsom Product Pirates (and see how they get locked up for 30 years for running an illegal copy of Windows XP).
Be fascinated how Captian Copyright bribes and lobbies the Congress to introduce capital punishment for product theft.
What's next? The "Condom Crusader?" ...
Oh. On second notice, I guess "Condom Crusader" came first.
They are giving people the FU...
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Great. Now I've got this going through my head:
"RIAA!"
"MPAA!"
"Fear!"
"Uncertainty!"
"Doubt!"
"GO COPYRIGHT!"
"By your powers combined, I AM CAPTAIN COPYRIGHT!"
According to this post on Slashdot, I totally ignored their idiotic disclaimer--I can't even link to their site--they withold permission! Oh crap, I'm in for it now! The Canadians are coming! The Canadians are coming!
:-)
Speaking of which, anyone up for a Google-bomb? But what to call them? How about, I dunno... copyright bastards? Or does that infringe on some of SCO's IP?
I can see that copyright law is clearly a priority for early education. Not grammar, or mathematics, but intellectual property and coporate interests. And apparently not even spelling. Check out the last box of this cartoon. What, exactly, is "resrearch"?
I'm anxious for chapter 10 when CC founds the Fascist League Unlimited.
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A few million similar votes should get the point across.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
It's a waste of time not only for the obvious reason that kids would see right through this sort of crap as yet another wholly un-fun attempt at wrapping adult prohibitions in a cartoon package, but also for a less obvious reason. Teachers would never use it. I teach older kids myself, but I know quite a few elementary teachers and they're busy, busy people. These copyright goons seem to think that teachers have gaping holes in their classroom schedules that they're dying to fill. Hello? Accountability? High-stakes testing? NCLB? Yes, I know this particular example is Canadian, not US, but the idea is the same. If the industry wants teachers to shill for them, at the very least they need to package their propaganda in a way that won't appear to be a waste of time to teachers, parents, and administrators. Hook it up to reading, math, or some other core subject or else a teacher won't even look at it. I suppose I should shut up now before I give them ideas...
I would still vote for chopping the hands off, but let us how well this will work out...
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
CAN versus MAY
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=can
Scroll down to USAGE
$PERSON is almost certainly physically capable of any acts described above, without regard for the legal or ethical* considerations that might pertain to such acts.
* "Legal" and "ethically acceptable/required" have no well defined mapping..
Captain Copyleft...
An evil creature with superpowers (one of them tons of lawyers appearing by instantaneus creation) named "Captain inc" that seems good to the masses by powerful marketing practices is washing brains of zillions of people, a homebrew experiment by a some millions of creative code hacers and artists created his good alter-ego: Captain Copyleft!
Captain Copyleft fights against monopolizer corporations and the effort of a culture equally for all people without worry how much money they can but how many they want to learn. He appears when a group of highly self-motivated people needs urgently his help, converting this group on the hero, having each apparition different appearing and superpowers.
____________________________
The Infoanarchist
In 2012, Sharing non-commercial information is prohibited. All information is created and manipulated by the only worldwide corporation that owns EVERYTHING (even life and the planet), even the voice calls and minds of people, by a giant computer system called WCTAIAS (Worldwide Copyright and Trustly Information Awareness System). Rebelds created a superintelligent computer program being with self-conscience.
The self-conscience entity entered into WCTAIAS and analized all date on it. After millions of calculations of all kind, it became to the conclusion to the evil nature of corporations and the manner this kind of organizations corrupt humans to acting worse to the rest of the world against common sense. After this conclussion, he said it to the worldwide humans before exiting from the WCTAIAS the reasons of why corporations must no exist. This entity named itself as: The Infoanarchist...
"They also neglect to mention that Canadians pay a tax on blank media that is meant to compensate artists for downloads."
The inaccuracy of the "...for downloads" portion has already been addressed, so I'll just point out that Slashdotters always neglect to mention that the levy goes only to Canadian artists. If you're Canadian and you're downloading music from US, Europe or elsewhere in the world, it's a misguided approach to assume that the blank media levy is compensating these artists whose work you're helping yourself to for free.
It's a nice panacea; a placebo. If you're Canadian and the existence of the blank media levy makes you feel better about getting your music via P2P, then great -- more power to you. But please do not claim that the non-Canadian artists in your music collections have somehow been compensated by the levy.
Sitting in my day care, the art is decopainted.
I am in awe that they have a 1 page PDF that takes up 5 megs, and despite it's title that would lead you to believe it contains Canadian Copyright laws, it actually doesn't reference any laws at all! If everyone downloads the PDF even once, we can Slashdot 'em pretty quickly! http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Teachers/Docs/LMCop yrightLaws.pdf
From their Terms of Use page:
What you can do with the Materials: Authorization and Limited Licence Access Copyright grants you a limited, royalty-free, non-exclusive and non-transferable right and licence to view and display the Materials on your computer or network of computers within a single entity, and download and print the Materials for your own personal internal use or educational use in educational institutions located in Canada, subject to the following conditionsi. You are not permitted to modify the Materials; ii. You must include and display on each copy of the Materials the associated Copyright Notice set out below, at the end of this Notice; iii. Except as otherwise expressly permitted herein, you are not permitted to make any commercial use of the Materials; and iv. You are not permitted to copy or cut from any page or its HTML source code to the Windows(TM) clipboard (or equivalent on other platforms) onto any other website.
To obtain access to the Captain Copyright website you must first register on-line with Access Copyright , the Captain Copyright website is available for the use of those who agree to all the terms contained in these Terms of Use[emphasis mine]
IANAL, but I'm not sure if most of these are even legally enforceable, even in Canada. I'm not quite sure where to begin:
Seems like Captain Copyright lost his Magic Cluestick(TM).
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
Are these guys fucking retarded or what? If this is meant for teachers, then it's meant for schools. In case they haven't noticed, the curriculums are already full, and teachers drop topics that are important themselves.
Not to mention that the curriculums are standardised already, meaning that for Captain Copyright to get his ass into schools, the entire provincial board would have to OK it. Ya, gl with that.
really, you want to Fuck Godwin that seems kinda odd. But what do I care you can fuck whomever you want.
Well not quite, but quoting The Right To Read under fair use terms: "This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do."
This is exactly what society is moving towards. We need to stop it before it's too late.
Why do you need permission to sell/copy your own creation under those rules?
Seriously guys, someone out there has to be arty enough to create GNUman, with all the powers and bodily odour of....... a GNU. He'd show kids how great it is to publish their work under the GPL, and to practice fair use, and to contribute to OS projects that make the world a better, fluffier (and cheaper) place to live in.
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as a kid, the best sure-fire way to get me interested in doing something was to make an 'edutainment' comic book against it. I mean, jesus, this crap's down there with Johnny Turbo!
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I take my comment back. This is brilliant. Sure, it makes kids want to violate copyright, but it makes it seem like an incontrovertible law. Like Jaywalking or something. I say bravo to Canada's version of the RIAA. I wish I could be that spineless and evil, I'd be rich and powerful already.
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while, but that was suPer!
I am pointing out a simple fact:
religeon is use to control people.
you ever tell your child not to do something because it is againsts gods will?
Every threaten to punish a child if the question a belief?
I see people afraid to question the writing of their religeon out of fear.
I see hypocrasy committed by almost every person at church
I see church groups get together onnhow to get them
I see leader of countries demanding people kill themselvs in the name of religeon.
Enlightenment does not come from religeon. It comes from with in. Saying 'it's gods will' is NOT elightenment.
I have no problem with religeon, just don't blind yourself that people will use it to control you. Mostly into giving them money, but sometimes to get votes.
Hope for what?
I fink hope iwth the race when I see people help each other out, rescue a stranger, send machine outside out solar system. You know, actions people do that rise above the noise. Yeah smoetimes people do bad things, but other people bring it to an end.
I have never seen anyone who wasn't manipulated by there 'belief'. No one.
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Under Canadian Copyright Law, it's perfectly legal to download music without paying for it.
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See?
Actively uploading, however, does violate our Copyright Law. This has been brought up here so many times, I'm not going to bother posting links to previous
I've not had the displeasure of sitting through this; they aim it at the younger grades (14, 15 years old). While the website for "Captain Copyright" emphasizes intellectual property rights, the in-class indoctrination mostly talks about not plagarizing, so at least at my school, I think fairly little harm is being done.
Even better, I have heard many of my peers mocking "Captain Copyright" and many seemed quite well informed about the law concerning fair dealing and had strong opinions on why the current copyright system is wrong or broken (at least according to them, who seem to want to justify the downloading of music.)
As to aiming copyright law indoctrination at young children, well, thats just plain wrong. Private industry should not attempt to sugar-coat something like this as an educational aid and offer free material to teachers; nor should those teachers fall for such easy tricks! In a world where from every angle comes marketing ploy for corporations, is there nothing left sacred? Even a child's education? We should teach our children to be critical of everything they receive, I hope this material is being portrayed in such a light at school, instead of being force-fed to the students.
....Jeff from the BBC show Coupling had something to do with this.
Oh well, I'll just go back to my shell.
For some reason my fountain pen doesn't work here.
I just squealed to DC Comics. Although I don't expect anything to come of it, it will be hugely entertaining if something does.
I'm sure this will come as a suprise to many canadians, but copyright law is seriously screwed up here. We can often pride ourselves with the facts that our laws make much more sense that those of our neighbours to the south (which is true), but copyright law is a notable exception. There is no such thing as "fair use" in Canada.
Aside from that, the comic is rather lame -- it's so overdone, even a child should be able to detect the smell of propoganda...
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I suppose the difference here is that cigarettes cause cancer, while the recording industry's actions are a cancer.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
and you should look at how other people, not under the influences you cite, experience God and religion. if you do see how it enriches, sustains, and gives hope, you're just stereotyping, which is merely intellectual laziness.
Yeah, just look at Tom jumping there in Operah's sofa! Now there's a happy man! So what if it costs him a little money and he must eat some placentas...
The Chair Corp. comic(*00-12)
Honestly. What can I say? My kid is 11 months old. In 5 years he'll be going to school. Here in Canada. And he will be learning about Captain Copyright? Jesus.
I hope they all burn in hell.
call him captain copyleft. pleeeeeeaaaaase.
I'm all for kids having an understanding of the law, but Captain Copyright seemed rather one sided to me. (That's putting it politely, some might suggest it is deliberately trying to distort children's views of what is copyright infringement).
To balance things a bit maybe we need our own superhero to put across the story about fair use, balancing rights of the copyright holder against those of the public, and that it's fun and good to carry on sharing your toys with your friends - we need Captain Copyleft.
captaincopyleft.com is bought (I can't get captaincopyleft.ca as I'm not a canadian citizen), and I can provide hosting, but I have no artistic talent and can't write. Any slashdotters out there willing to step forward and provide content?
"Captain Copyright! He's our hero! Going to bring all our money down to ZERO..."
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I enjoyed Philipp Lenssen's parody of Captain Copyright over at Google Blogoscoped.
It has been deemed legal by their lawmakers and courts and since the laws and court decisions have not changed/been overturned to make them illegal, this is simply false.
screw these liars trying to pervert and poison the minds of impressionable youth! get it through your heads you greedy corps, it's not illegal in canada!, and the majority of the public doesn't consider it wrong where you've bought the laws making it illegal in other nations!
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The bottom of the "Access Copyright" webpage contains the message "We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian Culture Online Program." So I guess it's okay for a government funded organization representing the publishing industry to spread propaganda directed towards children.
I held my nose and went through the comics. At the end, readers have a chance to vote for the outcome.
"Hey Kids! Now it's your turn - use the buttons below to vote for what happens next, then check back here in September to read the continuing adventures of Captain Copyright!"
The "buttons" are actually text mailto links. OK, bad design, but it also kind of seems sneaky. Well, who knows what else will show up in the captain@captaincopyright.ca mailbox... not that I would advocate anything like that. Oh no. I'm an old man now and very responsible.
Lastly: allow me to present my reply to the BSA Copyright Weasel and this Capt. Copyright fellow:
Cracker, the Fair Use Ferret
I thought you could.
Once, back in the days when America was politically stable and Washington was free from scandals and the Democrats that come with them, a young man set out with the simple noble goal of creating the world's computer operating system. That man was William Henry Gates III, fresh out of college, full of ideas, hope, honesty, charm, and good looks.
Little did he know what the evil Kernel Linux had in store. Stealing all Gates's ideas using his army of brainwashed penguins, Kernel Linux created a cheap knock-off of Gates's nigh-on-perfect Operating System, Bob. Adding insult to injury, the Kernel began distributing it using Gates's own invention, The Internet.
"Guahaha!" Cried Kernel Linux, biting into a human baby sandwich, "I am evil! More evil than FreeBSD could ever be! And FreeBSD has Satan for a freaking mascot! AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE A START BUTTON! NO ONE WILL CARE! I'M FREE!"
Swearing to exact his revenge on Linux, William Henry Gates III assumed is top secret alter-ego:
Captain Libel!
From his base of operations, the FAT32cave, Captain Libel fights back against Linux and his army of evil. From the Free Software Foundation to GPLed products, Captain Libel is always there, on the watch, ready to spring in with warnings and labels and error messages and his super-powered libel-ray.
"Kids!" He cries, "When you use Open Source Software, you use an inferior product!"
"Watch out!" He cries, "Installing a third party operating system could void your warranty!"
"No!" He cries, "Open Document Format isn't just illegal - it's slower than the superior Gatescorp format!"
Swooping in on Linux, he fires! Blat, blat, blat!
"Ha!" Says Captain Libel, "Now I've added DRM to every piece of media to protect The Good Gatescorp Users of Earth! No one will want to use your evil product now, Linux! Not now that they can't listen to the latest pop musicians!"
But, oh no! Kernel Linux has something up his sleeve! "Wrong, Captain Libel!" Bif, kapow, zang! Linux is using Obviously Got Guilt media system! It's only used by pirates! "Ha! I will make the kids want to listen to crappy and evil indie bands instead of your superior pop music!"
"No, kids!" Screams Captain Libel! "Stay back! It's a trap! You can't play OGG files on your favorite media player without installing Evil Firmware! Please, listen to me!"
Kapang, zow, swinyagalaga! Hooray! Captain Libel is releasing websites explaining that Linux is bad because he says so! What a righteous guy!
"No, Captain Libel! Noooo!" Ha! Kernel Linux is on the run now, with his tail between his legs. Yes, penguins have tails. Ask Encarta The Infallible. No, kids, don't turn to the evil wiccapedia! It's pagan and innacurate! Did you know pedophiles use it? It's true.
Phew, another crisis averted, thanks to:
CAPTAIN LIBEL!
"The world is safe again," he says to his trusty mascot, Clippy. "But for how long?"
"It looks like you're writing a letter", replies Clippy in his chirpy, adolescent tone, "Let me delete it for you."
"Ho, ho, ho, Clippy," laughs Captain Libel, "One of these days, I'm going to have to correct your bugs. Not now, though, I'm too busy fighting evil."
THE END
Next episode: Captain Libel fights Arvin Sloane, evil CEO of Rotten Apple - but how will he react when Sloane beats Clippy to death with an iPod? All this and more in the thrilling, action-packed, fact-based adventure: CAPTAIN LIBEL AND THE CURSED APPLE!
Remember kids, Captain Libel says, "When you use Linux, you enable communism!"
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All Rights Reserved
he's our oppressors.. multiplied..and he's fighting on the elitists' side!
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This is quality work compared to Christian cartoons.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Captain Copyright may be quite the superhero (villain?) but even he bows down before (dramatic chord) SOFTWARE PATENT MAN!!
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They also neglect to mention that Canadians pay a tax on blank media that is meant to compensate artists for downloads."
Where's Ralph Nader when you need him? Wasn't one of his first cases Prell Shampoo because their directions said, "Apply, lather, rinse. Repeat." Repeat was unnecessary because the oils were invariably removed with the first application.
But, hey. Twice as much income from one word.
he's our hero gonna take B.T. down to zero. Earth...err... Music Video Print Art we are the 4 sides to copywrite, and together - we can change the world
The best part is it's based on a fallacy to begin with. In the comic, the school bully comes, steals his artwork, and begins selling copies for a quarter in front of the teacher's lounge. In the case of file sharing, no money changes hands! What a bunch of horse crap.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
So, anyone up for creating an arch nemesis for Captain Copyright?
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
Going through the "True or False", section myself, I was quite annoyed at the absolute assumption that all "software" was illegal to copy, and this being beaten into children's minds, amongst other falacies.
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Michael Geist (www.michaelgeist.ca) has a great commentary on his legal impressions of the whole thing:
http://michaelgeist.ca/component/option,com_conte
I know how much we all love Captain Copyright, so here are some pictures you can legally download, print, and color: http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Kids/ColouringBook. aspx
It was just a guess, but to clarify I should say I meant that the content industry probably has some of the highest profit margins. And, yes, I could be dead wrong about all of it. In which case it's the copyright cartel's fault for brainwashing me.
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My religion is a work in progress, ever proceeding onward towards the truth. I believe that this process includes debate. Currently I believe something about Jesus dying on account of sin. This sort of makes me Christian, but all the other "Christians" don't believe in the whole debate thing. I also believe that the English translations are all corrupt. I've made some progress learning Greek and Hebrew. Conversely most of those calling themselves Christians consider themselves either too busy or too dumb, or too.. something, to bother learning to read the Bible in the languages the English versions were written from. I find the fact that they haven't been so empowered by their religion a pretty strong indicator that their's isn't the right one. This does not, however mean that no religion drawn in part on the basis of the Bible can't be true. However, if one were to depend on this basis alone, most "Christians" aren't the greatest witnesses, nor are they on much of any factor. I testify to the unsuitability of most "Christians" I have encountered as witnesses despite finding myself clinging to the message of the Bible, and seeking to become the witness that I have found others not to be. Oddly enough, such "Christians" have done nothing to counteract me.
I was going to make a joke about being arrested for trying to spread the word about Captain Copyright, now I see it's no laughing matter! Sounds like a great ironic mascot for the Pirate Party.
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>In Canadian law it is incorrect to download a song unless you pay for it.
The "correctness" can be debated, but it is perfectly legal in Canada to download songs. Maybe not to upload them, but downloading for personal use is just fine under the law.
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Everyone who went to kindergarten or grade one remembers extensive lessons on "sharing"... now we've found a way to really share.
I'm not a big fan of debated subjects being taught in school, I think that we'll see greater and greater divergence on copywrite law in the near future.
Canada is quite liberal and would likely have quite liberal copywrite enforcement and IP laws except we are fprced to compete with American research and in fact a large number of U.S. companies have their research labs up here because of the huge number of university grads... (We have so many Grads hired south that the term "Brain Drain" is in common usage.)
This is bullshit. Brainwashing kids i nthe 3rd grade and tageting the music downloaders? This is another cheap shot.
It's not -1 Flamebait! It's +5 Funny. You just didn't get the joke...
It turns out kids notice that nobody says "I believe germs exist" or "I believe in gravity", but people do say "I believe in God". And so kids are much less sure about God existing. (Nobody gets punished for not believing in atoms.)
I only wish more parents would realize that about their "beliefs", and think about it.
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No where on the page does it say that the information on it is copyrighted.... You are now entering... The Twilight Zone.. *music ensues*
What I want to see though is a comic of Captain Copyright sodomizing himself with a retractable baton.
Hey they forget the TM for "Curious George"!
Bust 'em Captain Copyright!
What post? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!
>>10. When you buy a book, you own the copyright to that book, and you >>can loan it out or copy it as you wish. FALSE. God, where is this world heading...
Because that will quite obviously change everything and stop downloads. Who on earth thought of "Captain Copyright" in the first place? Besides that, isn't it legal to download, just not to share?
How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A fish.
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You see, they were sneaky enough to use a book title... because of course as we all know... YOU CAN'T COPYRIGHT A BOOK TITLE!
Just call him Hauptsturmführer Copyright to keep the tradition.
So where's Fair Dealing on their list?
They're the same idea, although the parts that aren't quite the same would drive your lawyer nuts.
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I suck at copyright.
Anyways, better check my Da Vinci Code torrent.
Is it my eyes or Captain Copyright wears Adolf Hitler-style mustache.
Around the same time nouns became adjectives!
It's poetry with a beat behind it! And guns! They're like beatniks with automatic weapons.
Bah, if we're going to have a link that sends stupid messages to the admin, let's at least make it something a bit more fun, like http://www.captaincopyright.ca/clueless_admins?you r_mother=a+hampster&your_father=smelt+of+elderberr ies
:] I'm sure they're thrilled... Please copy & redistribute this information as much as possible :]
Obviously, you should NOT set up a cron job to constantly run cURL and request that URL over and over or their logs might fill up...
As for a Google-bomb, I can't think of anything very good, although propaganda whores has a nice ring to it and I finally have a use for this karma, because posting this with the +1 will give Slashdot's pagerank to them for that term
Call me crazy... but firstly, the kid in the flashback never published his comic or did anything else to grant him copyright.... so as far as copyright law is concerned, what the bully did was fully legal.
And the scientists, who all worked on the discovery together, but one was taking sole credit.... since the bad one published it first HE technically has copyright. From, yet again, a copyright standpoint, the scientests can't do a thing to him.
In both cases, the offending party could get sued, because what they did was wrong, and ethics, at least for the scientists, would grant them all the due credit, but still.
I'll give them the cheap textbook one, that is true copyright right there, but still... anyway, that's where I stopped reading... WAY too stupid.
The fact is this ISN'T copyright law they're talking about, so Captain Copyright is even more of a flop than he sounds.... great job knowing the very laws your trying to "uphold".
> You see, they were sneaky enough to use a book title... because of course as we all know... YOU CAN'T COPYRIGHT A BOOK TITLE!
:]
You *can* trademark the name Curious George [TM], however. Copyright != trademark != patent != trade secret (although a single work may still be protected by more than one of those things). You'd think they'd make sure they were slightly more scrupulous if they're trying to sell Imaginary Property (I can't rightfully call most of it "intellectual") as anything but a tool of corporate oppression.
Anyhow, Curious George is trademarked by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Not that I give a rat's ass about that, but it is. Someone should tell those propaganda whores to mark it properly
The first teaches us that it is mean to be a bully. You should not kick a weaker kid, steal his stuff, and sell copies of it. Captain Copyright is there to protect you against bullies. This leaves the impression that if you are NOT a bully, it is no problem to copy stuff.
The second teaches us that the reason that you should not buy cheap copies, is that some of the pages might be missing. This actually is the argument you hear a lot: don't copy, because your rip might not be of the high quality of the original work. This leaves the impression that if you ensure that the copies are of the same quality as the original, it is no problem to copy stuff.
I understand where this is coming from. They want to teach kids that they hurt themselves if they violate copyrights. Unfortunately, that is never going to work; in practice, the kids only enrich themselves by violating copyrights. Of course, for kids the message "this work is OWNED by someone else who does not want you to copy it, and you must respect his will" is not really convincing. But it is the only message that holds truth.
Admiral Antifraud. He could have young adults watch Repo Man and listen to the intro music, then listen to the "soundtrack" cd and witness that the intro music does not in fact appear on it. Then he could ask "What is that?" and they could all yell "FRAUD". The moralizing of the media corps about how bad copyright violation is reeks of hypocrisy given their own propensity to commit crimes -- which they being corporations are never punished for (anyone else remember that lame "settlement" where they got to dump garbage cds on the public and call it restitution for price fixing of non-garbage cds?). Especially when they want to abuse the innocence and trust of children with their one-sided and self-serving indoctrination to ip law issues. Grr.
A while ago I was talking to my friend's step-son, who's about 11, and he was impressed by the amount of music I had on my iPod. He was surprised when I said I'd paid for it all as well.
The conversation went a bit like this:
"Why did you pay for it? Why not just download it?"
"Well, because that's stealing. I'd rather pay so that the artists I like get some money for the work they do, and stealing is wrong."
"But it's not stealing, because it's free. How can you steal something that's free?"
"It's only free because people illegally copied it and put on the net. You still end up with a product you should have paid for."
"But it's FREE!"
As far as a lot of kids are concerned, if you can download it for free, what's the problem?
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Every time something like this pops up, I can't help but remember Don't Copy That Floppy.
I am honestly going to laugh so farking hard if the next episode includes a character dressed like a digital pirate. Oh my God. That would be so funny. That's going to be my halloween costume.
Evidently not.
And in other news, Richard Stallman has announced that the FSF will be bringing out their own superhero Captain Copyleft. Featuring a goatee beard, horns, and a reverse C with a green circle and bar.
Cartoon magazines featuring this character will be given away for free.
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They may, in principle, disbelieve evolution, consider God omnipotent, believe in the "healing power" of prayer and so on.
But the day they have a serious infection, their first choise tends to be antibiotics like the rest of us.
The study says kids notice that people talk differently about say germs, and god. This has a reason; even religious people "believe" that god exists -- to a point. They are *certain* that bacteria exists. Yes, they'll claim to be certain about God too. But literally -- even 5 year olds can tell they're not really.
Sorry this is a bit off topic, but... where do all the "Must. XXX. YYY." style of statements come from? This seems to be a meme of some sort but given that XXX and YYY are always different, it's a bit hard to ask Google...
Yes, you are definitely stereotyping. I'm an agnostic. I don't go to church anymore, but I went when I was growing up and almost nothing you mention appeared in my church.
Personally, I was raised Catholic in the "deep south" where all my friends were raised in fire and brimstone Baptist churches while we had to travel 45 minutes to go to our Church.
My Catholic church wasn't much to sneeze at... The sermons were bland and generally just telling you verbatim of things from the Bible without much interpetation.
However... When I went to my friends Baptist church groups and services they would talk about fire and brimstone and damnation. I remember they would have kids group where some guy would dress up as satan and the try to run up and down the isles and the kids would boo and hiss at him. They would pass out Jack Chick tracts and so on...
Pretty much all the rhetoric scared the shit out of me and I thought I was going to hell as a child for being a Catholic. (however MTV, NIN, early 90's and teen angst cured that)
However there was a lot of hypocryisy involved in the local church seen. Affairs... Theivery of church donations... And even murder... Yes... In my small town of 3,000 a pastor was murdered by a mother of a daughter he was sleeping with at a local grocery store in front of tons of witnesses. I kid you not...
However, my Catholic church really didn't have all that and was rather bland and I never really felt they were pushing anything on me other saying stuff I didn't really understand.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Canadian law and American law are not the same? Shocker!
Only if you don't get extradited to the US for violating copyright law on Canadian soil.
The US has a bad habbit of that...
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Indoctrination is the BEST! Especially since it almost universally backfires, leading to an entire generation of useless pothead misanthropes who are proud to be able to hold minimum wage jobs, and spend their days downloading terrabytes of music, movies and games for free!
You know, I think someone should remind these useless pieces of trash exactly what their role is, because they seem to think they've got far more intrinsic worth and power than they really do.
It's been a long time.
"Then hand out (or read) Line Master: Some Copyright Laws."
Gosh, the only thing more exciting for those kids would be if Certified Public AccountantMan came in and read them some of the Canadian tax code. Lucky tykes.
I'd like to point out that the quiz for kids was very accurate. They don't ever talk about "downloading music" but they do point out that students have rights vis-a-vis teachers when it comes to their own written works and such.
Personally, I'd let my kid take the quiz and then help them understand the nuances of the levy and personal copies of music, photocopying of pages of books for research, etc.
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This will work out great, just like it does for drug abuse and drunk driving!
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling a pig in mud. Soon, you realize the pig is dirty, and he likes it.
Sounds like the Reich 3.0 controversy...
ASCAP and other performing rights groups collect the same "blank tax" here in the USA. Makes you wonder doesn't it.
Captain Copyright should encourage all the children to spy on their friends and family just to make sure they are not doing something wrong. Maybe the good spies will get a free uniform, a nice tan shirt and black pants with a black, white and red arm band.
A: "You can't draw a pony! It was my idea to draw a pony!"
Sorry that's Private Patent's area of expertise, not Captain Copyright's.
The Federal Court decision has NOT been overturned yet, and now we have a large chunk of time to gather statistics which can prove one way or another whether legal downloading is hurting the music industry or not.
Meanwhile, I'm downloading all the music I damn well please. After all, I'm already paying for the right to copy it for personal use.
That's actually a good way of teaching children about Copyright law. If only we have thought of it before we could have Captain Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Captain C++, Captain Brain Surgery, Captain World Economics and all sorts of characters teaching children about difficult issues that they would encounter later on their lives.
I have never in my life said "I believe in god". Thank you now for giving me a concise way to explain this to people when they bug me about it.
"Well, you wouldn't say 'I believe in gravity', would you?"
(I realize that it's unlikely that this was what you were going for with your post, but it's what I got out of it, so thanks anyhow.)
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~
So you're saying that the church is designed to focus the community and inspire thought about moral issues, but it doesn't magically transform the usual fallible human specimens into superhuman paragons of the christian ideal?
Imagine that. Welcome to 35 AD, when everyone else discovered this.
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~
Is our hero!
(he's) gonna take pollution down to zero!
Seriously, though, that show served a valuable purpose, in that it had villains who cackled evilly as they dumped shit in the drinking water just for the hell of it. This caused kids to realize the obvious "no one is actually like that, that's fucking stupid", and resulted in later generations of environmental activists realizing that polluters are really normal people who aren't necessarily doing it from the sheer evil of their hearts. I actually think that this is the reason why environmentalism has actually made great strides recently: people are much more likely to cooperate with you when you acknowledge that they are a human being.
I see the pendulum swinging back the other way these days, where demonizing people just because they work in a corporation is no longer seen as, well, riciculously fucking cheesy and unrealistic. I'm hoping this is just because of my involvement with the local college, though, since uneducated random bigotry (albeit in leftist directions instead of the rightish ones) is more the norm.
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~
This reminds me of the awful "Don't copy that floppy" campaign in the 80's. It flopped... big surprise. Video is available for download on archive.org.
You CANNOT make copyright law interesting to kids... not with Captain Copyright, Bill O'Reilly, or even Geraldo Rivera as your mascott. You might as well be trying to teach kids about tax law with Captain Taxes! People should rise up whenever government tries to fill their kids' heads with garbage. They might need that space for things like... math and reading.
Since when is plagiarism the same as copyright infringement?
I wonder if Captain Copyright is tolerant of parodies?
While I disagree with your apparent conclusions, I respect someone who doesn't engage in the doublethink most theists seem to. Glad you got something out of it.
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BF Skinner did nothing to his daughter. The entire legend about him sticking his kid in a Skinner box for years was just a misreading of an article that was written about a tempature controlled crib he designed.
Huh?
I thought the tax was intended to compensate artists for people who did the rip, mix, burn thing.
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