When I was about five years old, Miss Francis of Ding Dong School showed a drawing I’d made of a fawn, among the set of drawings children submitted every day.

I’d made that drawing by tracing a picture on the show Winky Dink — a show that assumed you’d bought their protective plastic coversheet for your TV screen so you could draw right on it.

My earliest media lesson therefore: If you want to violate copyright, first you have to copy right.

Now vee may perhaps to begin? [Tags: tv copyright]

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