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MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students
An anonymous reader writes "A number of groups, including the MPAA, are pushing to educate elementary school kids about the dangers of piracy. From the article: 'A nonprofit group called the Center for Copyright Information, which is supported by the MPAA and other groups, has commissioned a school curriculum to teach elementary-age children about the value of copyrights. The proposed curriculum is still in draft stage, but it's already taking flak. Some critics say the curriculum promotes the biased agenda of Hollywood studios and music labels. Others contend it would use up valuable classroom time when U.S. public schools are already struggling to teach the basics.'"
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/09/24/1235226/california-elementary-schools-to-test-anti-piracy-curriculum
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The Nazis also pushed for youth indoctrination to attempt to create generations of followers. Glad DARE and MAFIAA learned the lesson.
Of course we all know this will be biased. Piracy funds terrorism, illegal drugs, crime and violence.
I respectfully submit a request to change the tag on this story from "education" to "indoctrination".
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It isn't nice to share your toys, you're stealing money that the toy manufacturers deserve when your friend Johnny doesn't buy his own toy!
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We don't teach our children to think, we teach them to consume.
This is just like the pharmaceutical industry funding D.A.R.E..
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Agreed.
Copyright keeps culture "hostage". No one is allowed to enjoy unless they pay-to-play. Short-term profit over long-term benefits to society.
oh come on! Think of the poor MPAA losing their shirt just because times change. And hey, if schools are having troubles right now, they're sitting on a MOTHERLOAD of a profitable resource: A captive and impressionable audience. I'm sure the MPAA would be willing to part with a few dollars to have a SIMPLE and PRODUCTIVE message sent to our youths.
And why stop there? I'm sure that ExxonMobile would be willing to donate to our children's future and supply a brief explanation of the benefits of fracking. Halliburton would be able to give an up-close and insightful description of political issues to bolster their social science awareness. Microsoft would be able to explain what all happens when you agree to those complicated EULAs. They could also comment on the importance of sharing, caring, and litigating anyone who dares do it with your toys. Monsanto would do wonders in the biology class.
Just think of the possibilities.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the music labels are now resorting to re-educating future generations in a futile attempt to protect their obsolete business models. Their meddling with the legal system, constant redefinition of copyright terms and heavy-handed persecution of those they see as "offenders" have, as predicted by everyone except them, done nothing to prevent people doing what human beings have loved to do with audible culture for millennia - sharing it. These idiots probably see this as a good idea. What next? Selectively assigning breeding privileges to the population based on an exam paper sponsored by the Corporate Overloads of America to ensure your opinions conform to our scientifically proven CorrectThink(TM)?
Give Credit," "It's Great to Create,"ECT the RIAA tells the artests that but uses a lot of loop holes and Hollywood book keeping to not pay them.
I dare the administration to tell me I have to teach this curriculum to my students. I'll give my own slant on it and end up teaching anonymous proxy, torrents, ripping, you name it...
Actually as common core, students have to work more with media. As a result we are ripping DVDs and cds and editing these to meet some educational goals... I am sure that is against their curricula.
bastards. (*IAA, not the students, this time.)
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As long as I can form a coalition that gets equal time promoting piracy and clearly exposes the Hollywood MAFIAA for what it really is I have no problem with this.
Otherwise it's essentially Nazi-style propaganda, which has no place in our schools. Sorry MAFIAA, but no.
Why don't we start with the fact that Hollywood was founded as it was about as far from New York and their IP laws about the movie industry as you could get in those days? Let's make sure we cover the theft of material from the public domain for corporate use too.
Don't forget to cover the MPAA's own history of corruption. The RIAA should not be forgotten either, they have a long history of ripping of artists and we need to make sure we educate people on that. We should have a special section on Hollywood accounting that covers how you have a billion dollar blockbuster that costs $100 million to make and officially loses money. Make sure that we cover how this works in the music industry too.
I also think it is important that people are educated on all of their rights that have been trampled and attempted to be circumvented by the **AA's and their like kind organizations overseas. By all means we should show the **AA's support of taking away your rights for a fair trial if your accused of copyright infringement. Don't forget to educate people on treaties and what they have done to take away your rights by treaty.
Don't forget to cover public domain and the history of extending how long something will last before being put into public domain. We also need to show how this has changed over the years. Libraries, those bastions of piracy! They have the audacity to lend IP without people paying for them fresh every single time, let's make sure we cover the history of trying to shut down libraries abilities to do lend things.
Anything else that we should educate people on?
Teach them copyright law and use it as a proof of Intelligent Design.
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My own personal idea is that copyright/patents should only last like 5-7 years, then everything is in public domain. This way the old guard could still keep plugging on to a degree.
Although I agree that the current copyright term is ridiculously long, effectively preventing any work from being open to the culture that created it, I think 5-7 years may be a little short. I've wondered about an automatic 14 year term for all works (like current automatic copyright), plus a 14-year extension for $$$$, for 28 years max. These numbers are based on an older copyright term, but are still basically arbitrary. You want to strike a balance between culture having free access to art in a timely manner, and protecting the ability of the artists to profit from their work. How long is too long? How long is long enough?
I would guess that the minimum length should be generally long enough for a producer of art to recoup the costs of production, but this may vary considerably by medium. GTA V made its budget back in what, 12 hours?
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Religious people can opt-out their children when it comes to evolution and sex-education. Seems only fair that parents get the option to opt their children out of this unabashed intrusion of the classroom by media corporations. From an economic educational standpoint, I don't want my kids learning that having the right political connections can be used to compensate for a broken business model.
Great idea... as long as it's objective and based on science.
You know... explaining how copyright once just lasted only a handfull of years and how downloading movies and music doesn't actually hurt sales.
Perhaps the kids should also be educated in the danger giving up your privacy to phone-home Digital Restriction Management, how companies steal control over your computer just because you want to play a CD and how they no longer actually own the things they buy in a store.
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Yeah, the words of a man who became a multi-millionnaire many times over really make me appreciate how everything should be equal and no-one should profit from the system!
How in the WORLD is advertising and propaganda being placed directly in public school curriculum?
I am sure this is not the first time propaganda has been pushed through elementary schools. There are tons of examples in various countries and regimes. And since it's that time of year again, let's tip our hats to the incredibly successful disinformation campaign of the Daughters of the American Revolution in creating our wonderful American Thanksgiving mythology (among many other similar myths).
Did I miss the nationwide campaign for elementary school level curriculum on the dangers of smoking? I seem to remember that being a part of Health in junior high... where you'd sort of expect it. If this followed that pattern, I'd expect to see this in within a class on Government in High School where patents, trademarks and copyright were debated alongside a treatment of historical patterns of dying industries using laws/regulations to postpone their demise rather than adapting.
Why would you lump absolutely critical sex-ed, and accurate info on climate change in with an absurd piracy lesson? Do you identify with the ignorant religious conservatives?
Sex-ed isn't a moral lesson, it's a biology lesson. The people trying to remove it from schools, or make it a "moral" lesson, are generally totally unethical religious crazies who want to deprive kids of accurate info. The same folks want to put their superstitions in science class. We all have an obligation to never let religious extremists limit education. People who can't handle reality should not be passing along their dysfunction to the next generation.
Teach kids how to read and write properly. Teach them to do math without a calculator. Geography, general culture, the works.
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Easy. You get copyright on the new derived work you produce. The older work you based it on expires normally.
So with Blade Runner, after 14 years anyone can produce a 'Directors Cut' and each producer will own a 14 year copyright on their Directors Cut. As long as you can keep producing these and selling them you can keep the money flowing in and keep something copyrighted. If you slack off or run out of ideas, the gravy train ends. But either way, the public gets the use of the original.
Don't want the public to have it? Keep it as a trade secret and don't let anyone ever see it. Want to hold onto Mickey Mouse? Treat it as a trademark, not a copyright.
There is no reason the law needs be be longer than a paragraph. Keep it simple and rational. (Oh wait, this is the federal puppet government we're talking about... nevermind...)
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The problem is that the current system is tilted so heavily in favor of the distributors... The consumers get totally shafted, and often the initial producers do too.
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I mean, some things they taught were brilliant. But a lot of what was going round in their heads... oh boy, anyone would think they were just a pair of average humans.
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