Access Copyright’s farcical Captain Copyright has been flammed out of existence, deleted by a huge flood of online outrage.
The corporate ‘Super Hero’ starred in what was presented as an educational comic. But, “While my first reaction to the site was that it is just silly, as I dug deeper, I now find it shameful,” said University of Ottawa Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law Dr Michael Geist.
“These materials, targeting kids as young as six years old, misrepresent many issues and proposes classroom activities that are offensive.”
And, “AC … publicly admitted that much of the torrent of criticism concerning CaptainCopyright has been justified, that some of what the Captain says is simply wrong, and that steps are being taken to redress this,” says copyright lawyer Howard Knopf more recently.
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and in other news: captain copyright was killed today by an enraged gang of six-year-olds as they kicked him in the balls repeatedly shouting “we hate you captain copyright!”
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