Teaching Copyright -- EFF curriculum for balanced copyright education

By at 1:10 pm Wednesday, May 27

Rebecca from EFF sez,

You may have seen the new anti-copying educational program the Copyright Alliance is promoting to the nation's teachers. Today, EFF launched its own "Teaching Copyright" curriculum and website to help educators give students the real story about their digital rights and responsibilities on the Internet and beyond.

The Copyright Alliance -- backed by the recording, broadcast, and software industries -- has given its curriculum the ominous title "Think First, Copy Later." But EFF's curriculum (the result of more than a year of work) introduces critical questions of digital citizenship into the classroom without misinformation that scares kids from expressing themselves in the modern world.

There are a lot of good resources on TeachingCopyright.org -- everything from lesson plans for high school students to guides to copyright law, including fair use and the public domain. So it's worth checking out whether you are a teacher, a student, or a parent.

Teaching Copyright (Thanks, Rebecca!)

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