Copyright Crusades Reach the Schools

In an effort to balance materials offered by groups like the Business Software Alliance and the Motion Picture Association of America, the American Library Association will distribute its cown opyright education materials through high-school librarians this winter or spring. "We want to teach children to be thinking human beings," Melinda Anderson, a spokeswoman for the NEA, reportedly told Wired Magazine. "Not a parrot for some corporate agenda."