Ever watched Glee? Me neither. It’s a show about high school on FOX that consistently shows students violating copyright law. Is this hypocrisy? Or is FOX involved in a back-door strategy to shift the world of intellectual property law towards the Creative Commons approach?

Christina Mulligan writes an interesting bit about that very conflict:

These worlds don’t match. Both Glee and the RIAA can’t be right. It’s hard to imagine glee club coach Will Schuester giving his students a tough speech on how they can’t do mash-ups anymore because of copyright law (but if he did, it might make people rethink the law). Instead, copyright violations are rewarded in Glee — after Sue’s Physical video goes viral, Olivia Newton-John contacts Sue so they can film a new, improved video together.

via Balkinization