Posted on 11/17/2013 7:42:22 PM PST by artichokegrower
The Motion Picture Association of American, in conjunction with the Record Industry Association of America and big Internet providers, has commissioned an elementary school curriculum to teach children the value of copyright and the evils of online piracy.
As if the schools need another thing to teach.
It might be filmmakers’ best fantasy of the year if they think teachers and school boards will agree that protecting the movie and music industries’ profits is worth a chunk of the school day.
The proposed curriculum for kindergarten through sixth grade, called “Be a Creator,” is still in draft form. But a leader in the effort told a House subcommittee she hoped the curriculum would be tested in California this academic year and eventually adopted nationwide.
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Are they going to cover how the content owners broke the contract with society, for example by buying a few legislators and extending copyright every time Mickey's about to become public domain? Or do they think they can fool the kids into believing the RIAA and MPAA are on the side of the angels?
IMHO it’s actually a legit concern if not a legit classroom topic. Probably better students understand this than rainforest drives and celebrating MLK day dozens of times.
I remember when Hollywood was going full tilt on the notion that music and film piracy was a major source of income of TERRORISTS.
Hollywood was trying to hijack 9-11 for enforcement purposes, all while claiming it was this big inside job...
Intellectual property rights aren’t.
That is, if you make a comfortable chair, and I I like it and decide to make one of my own, I’ve taken nothing from you.
Except, of course, for the profits you had anticipated due to your possession of a government-granted monopoly on ideas.
There’s no “right” involved in ideas. What there is is a system of limited government-granted monopoly created because it was seen to create a public benefit. It was believed that granting a monopoly for a limited time, followed by unfettered public access, would be create more innovation that having everything kept as a trade secret.
And there’s a solid argument in favor of the idea. But the discussion should a purely utilitarian one over what terms would provide the greatest public benefit. The discussion should not involve “rights”, because there are none involved.
California schools are on life support. Liberals here have already killed any semblance of education. Their only goal is Marxist indoctrination. The higher you go in school the worse it gets. Liberals spread hatred and lies to our children in the guise of “fairness”. Just like Obama.
They seem to never realize that egalitarianism is an impossibility and should be dumped out of all curriculum especially social studies. Liberal “educators” live in a delusional fantasy bubble they’ve created out of whole cloth to make themselves feel good. The real problem is they’re trying to take whole generations of kids down in the cesspool with them.
To the perveyors of perversion and glorifiers of violence and porn in Hollywood, there is no God, nothing is holy, & there is hence no need for morals. Except when it comes to money - then suddenly the mere copying of some $1 Disc by which the original remains with the person who paid for it has been rebranded as “theft” - a terrible sin while abortion, the promotion of socialism (real THEFT)- and homosexuality are sacraments.
Great comment!
Great...so long as they invite someone in to teach how to use BitTorrent. I view the sanctity of Hollywood profits a little lower than I view the sanctity of Iranian oil profits. These people are enemies of America.
When Big Media lost the first physical reproduction lawsuit way back when, they set precedence that it was OK to copy media. See, for decades they've contended any consumer electronics gadget that can copy media is illegal and that is including 8 track tapes and earlier. But they lost the fight every time and settled for some "vig" from the "blank media" producers {blank tapes and CDs and such} but now people aren't using physical media blanks and instead are using Hard Drives and Memory Sticks. So, no vig.
They are grasping for purchase on a continually narrowing ledge and to their horror, there is none. Its hard to make the argument that I can't lend a friend a song I bought because its digital when it was OK to do so when it was in analog form.
So now they are stuck trying to undo decades of social custom regarding Music and Movie lending and copying.
And the only way they are going to convince people to stop is to try and make the case that it is stealing. I don't think this is gonna be an easy goal for them to accomplish.
They also want & many times get tax breaks when they make movies in certain states but they want YOU to pay more taxes while they just talk about paying more “for the good of the country”... Biggest bunch of hypocrites in the country.
They build multi million dollar sets, blow them up or tear them down when finished but lecture everyone else about turning down your thermostat or using less toilet paper...while they fly private jets to multiple homes. PUKE!
LOL, they “wish” people would pirate their crap.
I could care less if they removed 95% of what is on the boob tube, it is turning our children into brain washed skulls full of mush and causing many to hurt others or themselves with their ‘agendas’.
Now basketball, football, cooking, nascar, and gospel and country music channels are the only ones we watch along with a little DIY or History.
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