{"id":183515,"date":"2013-02-06T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/06\/stupidest-idea-in-maryland\/"},"modified":"2013-02-06T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:57:00","slug":"stupidest-idea-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/06\/stupidest-idea-in-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupidest Idea in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Maryland is not generally considered a good government state, witness the regular indictments of Maryland politicos, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130204\/02074521874\/copyright-insanity-school-policy-requires-students-hand-over-copyright-all-work.shtml\">Prince George&#8217;s County Board of Education takes the cake<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">There are some absolutely ridiculous situations created by the fact that  all creative works are automatically granted a copyright on being put  into a fixed form.  Mostly, we just ignore these situations, because the  vast majority of them never matter.  But, as copyright has become more  and more ridiculous, some people are beginning to start to make use of  the stupid fact that all kinds of things can be &#8220;owned&#8221; that probably  shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;ownable.&#8221;  Take, for example, school work.  If a student  creates something, it is covered by copyright, though most people never  really consider or care about that.  However, the board of education for  Prince George <span style=\"color: black;\">[sic]<\/span> County in Maryland is apparently considering a new  &#8220;copyright policy&#8221; in which all students and staff would have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/prince-georges-considers-copyright-policy-that-takes-ownership-of-students-work\/2013\/02\/02\/dc592dea-6b08-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assign all of those copyrights <i>over to the school system itself<\/i><\/a>.   <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis original<\/i>) <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see how they have a leg to stand on with the children, who are not employees, and so could not be seen as producing work for hire.<\/p>\n<p>This is nucking futs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Maryland is not generally considered a good government state, witness the regular indictments of Maryland politicos, but the Prince George&#8217;s County Board of Education takes the cake: There are some absolutely ridiculous situations created by the fact that all creative works are automatically granted a copyright on being put into a fixed form. Mostly, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1134,968,1109,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-education","category-ip","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}