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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,
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 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."
Boing Boing helpfully points out (SFW) the similarity between the Captain Copyright logo and Slashdot regular goatse.cx (which I will not link).
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."
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
"Word got around that the copied textbooks weren't such a great deal after all and by the end of the semester the store that sold them was out of business."
Where's the little picture of Captain Copyright standing outside the burnt-out building with a gas can?
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.
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!
My favorite...
I am.... Captain Condom!
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
"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
So who is going to pre-release a torrent of all the Captain Copyright Comics?
~ Mooga
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?)
OMG PONIES!!!!111one!!!
Sorry, couldn't resist
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!"
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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...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.
I dunno. It kind of left me with the impression that she blew Captain Copyright to get her A. Sounds reasonable.
"Captain Copyright! He's our hero! Going to bring all our money down to ZERO..."
~ Mooga
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.
Captain Copyright
PADUCAH, KY, AP Wire -
Captain Copyright was arrested today but Federal Authorities on counterfeiting charges. In an ironic turn of events, the former crusader for corporate intellectual property rights was caught red-handed making counterfeit $20.00 bills with a laser printer, an iron, and a hair dryer.
When asked, friends were solemn about Copyright's descent into ruin. "He was such a nice guy until the RIAA stopped sending checks", notes once close friend Hayla Bullets. "Then, he just started drinking, grumbling a lot, and working in his machine shop.
Attorneys for Mr. Copyright could not be reached for comment.