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Girl Scouts Get a Badge in Intellectual Property

posted by n1 on Thursday March 27 2014, @09:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the propaganda-for-the-kids dept.

zocalo writes:

Techdirt is reporting in a follow up to their 2006 story about how the Los Angeles wing of the Boy Scouts of America had started offering an MPAA-supported patch in "respecting copyright," in which "respecting copyright" was actually respecting the MPAA's industry slanted view of copyright. Now it appears that the Girl Scouts are finally catching up. The Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation has helped create a special new "IP patch" for the Girl Scouts (PDF).

As the articles notes in its conclusion, there is also an "Energy Conservation" badge sponsored by an oil company so it appears that if you have a powerful enough industry, you can now push propaganda on kids in the form of "merit badges".

 
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