No. There are many, many things that should be taught instead, but there’s apparently no time/place for them.
And, copyright laws change. Chances are that the ones who enter school, and those who leave it are going to know different directives.
Surely there are more important things to teach kids than something that mostly serves the interests of large corporations
No small creators would exist without copyright. It doesn’t just serve large corporations. Tom Scott has an in-depth video on copyright as it relates to small Internet creators.
Knowing copyright laws can help you as an engineer, an artist and many other situations. Knowing this will equip you agains corporations.
I agree, of course, that many large corporations profit obscenely from copyright. But copyrights are also the livelihood of many small time players: from social media content creators, to artists and writers, to software developers and scientists.
Mandatory no. As an elective sure.
The problem with teaching law in the western world is despite what the law says a precident in a court case will function as a laws interpretation until the case is overturned or the law is updated.
If the students can identify plagiarism then that is sufficient unless they want to get in to media later in life. Copyright law should probably be an introductory college course for people getting into media though, sure.
No, it’s not important enough for the average person. It makes more sense as an elective maybe, or to wait until College/Uni when it becomes relevant.
Teaching them about privacy and security in our modern world would be far more useful.
You’d be hard-pressed in America to find a school that doesn’t address that.
Good to know. I wasn’t aware that this is already a thing in american schools. I just had seen earlier that lemmy.world blocked the biggest piracy community and got the impression from many comments that apparently not too many users are aware that the operators of lemmy.world might be held at least partly responsible for what content is made available on their platform.
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What about copyleft? Is that also cringe?
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