Taking the mickey out of Captain Copyright

The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, known popularly as Access Copyright was created in 1988 by Canadian writers and publishers to license public access to copyright works for use within Canada. In an effort to educate the public, it invented a comic book character, Captain Copyright and put up a website for teachers and kids.

Of course, such an effort was ripe for satire*, and using its own methods against it (see left or, for a more-easily-viewed version, click here).

*We were alerted to this particular send-up by a posting on the This Magazine blog by John Degen, a writer, poet and executive director of the Professional Writers of Canada (PWAC).