It undermines "creative play", which stunts development and ultimately threatens democracy, insists Susan Linn of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, an American group.To such critics, any system of control that depends on companies policing themselves is doomed to fail.
"It would undermine the creative sector in Wales.
Though it might seem to undermine the creative process, teamwork has a historical precedent in the celebrated glass studios of Venice.
While the debates these controversies have generated could be seen as positive, some feel they undermine the creative process that gave us voices like George Carlin and Richard Pryor.
"Intellectual property theft on an unprecedented, global scale is depriving creators and copyright owners of the return they deserve on their massive investments of creativity, expertise, and hard work, undermining the creative sector in every country," he said.
In some ways, the last 20 years' obsession with brand versus design has undermined the creative community.
Critics pointed out that the girls' sets are more about beauty, domesticity and nurturing than building — undermining the creative, constructive value that parents and children alike place in the toys.
The result is a regime characterised at its worst by self-serving, wasteful and mind-numbingly unnecessary supervision, which undermines the creative independence and confidence of the programme-makers who actually make the shows we love.
