Battleangel

Nifty use for copyright, at last, but I agree, it is hypocritical since many do vocally support an abolition of both religion and intellectual property. They just can’t decide which one they hate the most. I should know for I am one of those people, “copyright liberals” as it were.

Wired - 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.

This is an uncomfortable issue for copyright scholars, who, if they are anything like biologists, presumably disagree with intelligent design. But we have to call the game fairly. After complaining so loudly when Disney, Diebold and NBC used copyright as a weapon, it’s hypocritical to stand by and watch as others use it to bring the Kansas Board of Education into the scientific fold.

It is a tough choice. But at the end of the day, here is how I see it. Our opponents have taken the most extreme and unjust measures to quell dissent for millennia. More than being just “payback time,” we can rest easy that THEY would never hesitate to pull something like this on us.