Surely there are more important things to teach kids than something that mostly serves the interests of large corporations
I agree, of course, that many large corporations profit obscenely from copyright. But copyrights are also the livelihood of many small time players: from social media content creators, to artists and writers, to software developers and scientists.
No small creators would exist without copyright. It doesn’t just serve large corporations. Tom Scott has an in-depth video on copyright as it relates to small Internet creators.
Knowing copyright laws can help you as an engineer, an artist and many other situations. Knowing this will equip you agains corporations.
You’d be hard-pressed in America to find a school that doesn’t address that.
Good to know. I wasn’t aware that this is already a thing in american schools. I just had seen earlier that lemmy.world blocked the biggest piracy community and got the impression from many comments that apparently not too many users are aware that the operators of lemmy.world might be held at least partly responsible for what content is made available on their platform.
I’d rather students have more time off for lunch instead of learning why mickey mouse shouldn’t be in public domain because of the evils of public domain or some dumb shit like that, defending multi billion dollar corporations. These shill posts are very cringe. Fuck copyright.
What about copyleft? Is that also cringe?
Do you actually care about discussions of copyleft licensing? Do you want me to pretend to be ignorant of your comments about piracy in this very thread? Do programmers of FLOSS software regularly get together with law firms to sue fans of their work?
