Story at Wired.com:
Where are the copyright liberals when right-wing conservatives need us?
Last week, the National Academy of Sciences, or NAS, joined with the National Science Teachers Association, or NSTA, to tell the Kansas State Board of Education that it would not grant the state copyright permission to incorporate its science education standards manuals into the state’s public school science curriculum because Kansas plans to teach students that “intelligent design” is a viable alternative theory to evolution. Kansas is scrambling to rewrite its proposal to win over the NAS and NSTA. Read the rest of the story at Wired.com
Re:Reminds me of something tried in CA
I’ll only comment on Philips (one l): Any disc that contains DRM is simply not a Compact Disc Audio Disc, and cannot carry the logo. It doesn’t meet Red Book specifications. It’s a damn shame that Sony, which co-owns the CD patents and Red Book, has been led so astray by its Big Media music side that it’s abandoning the very format it helped create. Even the Department of Homeland Security isn’t wild about pseudo-CDs that weaken PC security…
Reminds me of something tried in CA
This was mentioned offhand a few months ago, but there is an interesting tactic used in higher education in California. Essentially, if a high school student in biology is taught creationism, they cannot get college credit for the course. Here’s a blurb on the story.
It also reminds me of talk about Phillips refusing to certify devices as “CDs” if they had crippling DRM on them.