Hollywood copyright cartel’s plot to indoctrinate California kindergartens
Sharing is the essence of digital creativity, but its enemies want to brainwash grade-schoolers with their commercial interests
In kindergarten, we teach children to share. By second grade – if people who bring you songs and pixie dust have their way – we’ll amend that in a major way.
Hollywood and the recording industry (aka the Copyright Cartel) are leading the charge to create grade school lessons that – at least, in their draft form, as published by Wired – have a no-compromise message: if someone else created it, you need permission to use it.
Sounds wonderful, until you think about how creativity actually works. And never mind that the law, already tipped in favor of copyright holders, doesn’t hold such an absolutist position.
It’s no surprise to learn that America’s biggest internet service providers – let’s call them the Telecom Cartel, since that’s what they’ve become – are part of this propaganda scheme. It’s sad to learn, however, that the California School Library Association has climbed aboard; the organization helped produce the lessons that, thankfully, are still only in draft form. But they are likely to reach California classrooms later this school year and, presumably, other parts of the