Saturday, October 16, 2010

Copying, A Right


California schoolchildren are obliged to copy ideas, and it was copyright lobbyists who put them up to it.

Since 2006, the school system of a state dependent on a profitable entertainment industry has made it mandatory for teachers to run their students through programs like "What's the Diff?" which has them role-play as different stakeholders in the unauthorized downloading of a movie: actors, directors, producers against a feckless, hard-drive-stuffing computer user.