Librarians rebuke Capt Copyright
p2p news / p2pnet: At its annual meeting in Ottawa earlier this month, the Canadian Library Association passed a resolution on Access Copyright’s Captain Copyright.
The resolution is powerful rebuke from one of the groups that the Captain Copyright program presumably hoped to attract.
It criticizes the biased approach on copyright, the linking policy, and notes that the “website poses a threat to our shared information commons by providing biased copyright information to the Canadian public, particularly children and schoolteachers.”
With that in mind, it resolves the the CLA President will write an open letter to condemn the Captain Copyright initiative.
Michael Geist
[Geist is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He can be reached by email at mgeist[at]uottawa.ca and is on-line at www.michaelgeist.ca.]
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June 29th, 2006 at 1:51 am
I’m sorry but this whole captain copyright thing must stop. Now. Right this minute. I want him gone. Permanently if possible. Why? Because of the whole PR bulldust he’s spouting about copyright? No. Not at all. There are much more important reasons to eliminate all use of such a character, especially one aimed at children.
He is completely unsuitable as a role model for boys or young men due to his ridiculously overdeveloped build. The only way to achieve a build similar to his would be to either spend years bodysculpting (or whatever they call it now) or abusing steroids, or both. He presents an impossible body image to young men and boys and can only contribute to the rise in steroid abuse in males around the developed world.
All parents everywhere must come together and demand that this captain (who probably doesn’t even hold such a rank or actual job title even in a fictional sense) copyright either be erased or have that ridiculous physique toned down before even more boys start succumbing to this added pressure to conform to an impossible body image.
After all, he’s being aimed squarely at kids in an attempt to ‘get em while they’re young’, and presumably vulnerable. Parents must be told about this character, because it seems in aiming him squarely at the kids, he seems to have somehow slipped right past most parents radar’s. Deliberately? Of course.
June 29th, 2006 at 11:03 am
yeah, and ban barbie dolls, too.