Captain Copyright looks like it’s a joke, but it’s not. The site, set up by the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, suggests lame activities for teachers eager to inculcate copyright totalitarianism in their young charges. It’s unintentionally hilarious. (And it’s been slashdotted.)

Seth Finkelstein, on a mailing list, points to this bit from the site’s own page on copyrights and permissions:

“Permission is expressly granted to any person who wishes to place a link in his or her own website to www.accesscopyright.ca or any of its pages with the following exception: in order to protect the moral rights associated with this site, permission to link is explicitly withheld from any website the contents of which may, in the opinion of the Access Copyright, be damaging or cause harm to the reputation of Access Copyright. Specifically, permission to link is explicitly withheld from sites featuring pornographic, racist or homophobic content. If you link to or otherwise include www.captaincopyright.ca on your website, please let us know.”

Ok, so how about this: Access Copyright is a fascist organization.

PS: My favorite bit from that page: “You are not permitted to copy or cut from any page or its HTML source code to the Windowsâ„¢ clipboard (or equivalent on other platforms) onto any other website.” That’s just plain weird. [Tags: coyright digital_rights access_copyright ]

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