The Youth & Sharing
26 April 2006
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85,9 percent of 900 surveyed danish 14 year olds thinks it’s ok to copy movies and music. Only other factors scoring in that range is “driving 2 persons on a bicycle”, 87,2 percent and “drinking alcohol”, 85,8 percent.
What to make of it – a big potential for participatory culture to be the belief system of the next generation – or some teenagers with lot’s of time on their hands to pirate stuff.
Whatever – it seems there’s no meaning for them to view music and movies as something it’s a crime to copy – and that’s the interesting fact no matter what side of the fence your on…
Source; The Childrens Council [danish] via Andreas Johannsen & Jacob Bøtter.
Interesting.
The following survey (in Danish) adds another dimension:
http://many.dk/PermaLink.asp?PostID=1942
Yeah… it’s interesting how these things change. It’s just not part of younger generations view that there are copyrights. But then again, that wasn’t part of my teenage years either – we too copied music. We just didn’t have as advanced technology as we do today.
I have just released a report on 7th and 9th graders’ view on choice of school and one of the points of the conclusion is the kids have the same prejudice views today as 20-30 years ago.
Apparently some things don’t change that fast…
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