Captain Copyright was a propaganda cartoon character created by Canada's Access Copyright agency to educate children about the agency's stance on copyright and copyright infringement. Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Access © or Access Copyright is the operating name of a Canadian business corporation whose official registration name is The Copyright is a legal concept enacted by Governments, giving the creator of an original work of authorship Exclusive rights to control its distribution usually for 'Copyright infringement' (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is covered by Copyright law in a manner that violates As of August 18, 2006, the Captain Copyright initiative had been canceled. [1] [2]
As of March 3, 2007, the website has a three-paragraph statement explaining that "we have come to the conclusion that the current climate around copyright issues will not allow a project like this one to be successful".
As of March 14, 2008, the website gives a 400 Bad Request, stating "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)".
Controversy
Not long after the launch of a website introducing the character, concerns were raised in a number of quarters that the character was not appropriate for educational uses, as it was produced by an entity with a commercial interest in the state of copyright law in Canada, and it is unclear that it is following copyright law itself.
For example, it was reported that the Captain Copyright web page used two quotes about ISBNs from Wikipedia, but fails to follow the requirements of Wikipedia's GNU FDL license by providing a direct link back to the source article or even acknowledging the GNU license as required by Wikipedia. ***************************************************************************************** * * The GNU Free Documentation License ( GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a Copyleft License for free documentation designed by the Free Software [3] On further investigation, several more Wikipedia quotes were also found on the site; however, as of 5 June 2006, all the Wikipedia quotes were removed,[4] and Suzanne Dugard, manager of communications for Access Copyright, stated in an interview with canada. Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. com that their inclusion had been "just an oversight". [5]
It has also been noted that the site avoids the issue of the blank media levy in Canada when discussing the legalities of space shifting and downloading copyrighted material without permission. A private copying levy (also known as blank media tax or levy) is a Government -mandated scheme in which a special Tax or Levy (additional Space shifting is a concept that has been argued in Copyright law to permit owners of some form of media such as a song or movie to convert that media from one format to another [6] While it is illegal to make such material available for download, as of 2006 the Copyright Board of Canada has indicated that it is not illegal to download copyrighted material once it has been made available illegally, a ruling made specifically because of the earlier imposition of the levy. The Copyright Board of Canada is an Economic Regulatory body empowered to establish either mandatorily or at the request of an interested party the Royalties [7] For example, a teacher's handout claims that for music "the copyright is for the recording on the media device, not the words or music on it,"[8] even though the intent of the blank media levy is to compensate copyright holders in return for allowing the shifting of the copyrighted material from media to media.
Others have pointed out that Access Copyright has placed the following two statements on the Captain Copyright website:
| “ | permission to link is explicitly withheld from any website the contents of which may, in the opinion of the Access Copyright, be damaging or cause harm to the reputation of, Access Copyright | ” |
| “ | You are not permitted to copy or cut from any page or its HTML source code to the Windows [TM] clipboard (or equivalent on other platforms) onto any other website. | ” |
In both cases, it has been questioned whether or not these clauses — unusual for HTML documents, which are intended to be hyperlinked to by the structure of web itself — are intended to stifle fair dealing, debate on copyright issues, and legitimate criticism of Access Copyright's approach despite Captain Copyright being pitched as a tool for education. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure In computing a hyperlink is a Reference or Navigation element in a Document to another Section of the same document or to another WEB is a Computer programming system created by Donald E Knuth as the first implementation of what he called " Literate programming " the Fair dealing is a Doctrine of Limitations and exceptions to copyright which is found in many of the Common law jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of [9]
References
- ^ p2pnet.net - not the lamescream media » Blog Archive » Captain Copyright shot down
- ^ Access Copyright exploits children, forbids criticism
- ^ Captain Copyright: Wikipedia pirate!
- ^ Access Copyright exploits children, forbids criticism
- ^ The strange saga of Captain Copyright
- ^ Captain Copyright Targets Kids
- ^ Canada OKs P2P music downloads
- ^ Copyright and What It’s For
- ^ Canadian copyright agency launches kids' propaganda campaign
External links
- Captain Copyright at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
- Boing Boing about Captain Copyright
- Official Site
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