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School board in Washington DC area considers copyright policy that takes ownership of ALL students’ + teachers' work
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 32915728:MV8yMTI4NDY3XzM1OTE3NzAxXzFGNDY3MTA0] They didn't make that....Government did!! Now we know "how" the government made that....by just taking it illegally! [/quote]
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A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual.
The measure has some worried that by the system claiming ownership to the work of others, creativity could be stifled and there would be little incentive to come up with innovative ways to educate students. Some have questioned the legality of the proposal as it relates to students.
“There is something inherently wrong with that,” David Cahn, an education activist who regularly attends county school board meetings, said before the board’s vote to consider the policy. “There are better ways to do this than to take away a person’s rights.”
If the policy is approved, the county would become the only jurisdiction in the Washington region where the school board assumes ownership of work done by the school system’s staff and students.
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