The Canadian Captain Copyright initiative has been canceled. The site provided teaching material for classes, but had a very unbalanced view on copyright -- missing out on giving equal focus on what you can share or remix (Creative Commons, public domain, fair use) vs what you are not supposed to freely share (copyrighted software, etc.). The situation was especially ironic because Captain Copyright was a complete rip-off of every existing superhero clichee on the planet, yet the Captain was supposedly fighting against remixing other people"s ideas. The site now proclaims:
In August 2006, we took the Captain Copyright website offline so that we could revise its content in response to the c ...
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