Wednesday, June 6, 2001

U.K. plans mandatory IP indoctrination for children (from Cluebot) http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/05/2338246 U.K. Plans Mandatory IP Indoctrination for Children posted by vergil on Wednesday June 06, @12:10PM from the get-em-while-they're-young dept. Forget digital watermarks and cease-and-desist letters. The future of intellectual property enforcement lies not in technological access controls or litigation, but mandatory education. Anthony Murphy, the UK Patent Office's Director of Copyright since 1999, has hit upon a novel solution to stamp out public disregard for copyright law by nipping future file-swappers in the bud. In a move that's an eerie cross between Brave New World and the Lehman Working Group's "Just Say Yes" (to licensing) proposal, the UK's Patent Office and Department of Education have teamed up to teach youngsters the virtues of copyright. Starting in fall 2002, reverence to intellectual property -- and, presumably, disdain for Napster and its successors -- will become part the "Citizenship" aspect of England's National Curriculum for secondary school students. According to a April 26, 2001 UK Patent Office press release: "In Autumn 2002, a new subject, Citizenship, is being introduced into the National Curriculum in UK secondary schools. Its aim is to teach children how to be good, moral, citizens and Anthony Murphy believes the subject would be an ideal vehicle for teaching children about intellectual property. 'By bringing awareness of the importance of copyright into our schools, tomorrow's consumers can take their place in a community which understands, values and respects intellectual property.'" POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ [Declan McCullagh via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 46] 0:00 # G!

FC: Ed Felten and researchers sue RIAA, DoJ over right to publish Code-Breakers Go to Court By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com), 6:22 a.m. June 6, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- After a team of academics who broke a music-watermarking scheme bowed to legal threats from the recording industry and chose not to publish their research in April, they vowed to "fight another day, in another way." On Wednesday, Ed Felten of Princeton University and seven other researchers took their fight to a New Jersey federal court in a lawsuit asking that they be permitted to disclose their work at a security conference this summer. Joining them is the Usenix Association, a 26-year-old professional organization that has accepted Felten's paper for its 10th security symposium in Washington during the week of Aug. 13. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is representing the researchers and Usenix. In what appears to be the first legal challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's criminal sections, Usenix is asking the court to block the Justice Department from prosecuting the conference organizers for allowing the paper to be presented. [...] [http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,44344,00.html] Background: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=felten DMCA-related photos: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dmca-appeals-arguments.html http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dvd-2600-trial.html http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dmca-protest.html EFF document archive: http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/ POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ [Declan McCullagh via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 45] 0:00 # G!