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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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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Grishnakh on Thursday March 27 2014, @10:33PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday March 27 2014, @10:33PM (#22358)

    It's just yet another sign that the USA is in decline and will collapse before too long.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Thursday March 27 2014, @11:55PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Thursday March 27 2014, @11:55PM (#22379) Journal

    It's just yet another sign that the USA is in decline and will collapse before too long.

    In a world where all things are equal, the efficiency of each nation (or whatever division of government we have then) will basically amount to their operating costs. For example, if the USA keeps its massive prison system in place [wikipedia.org] and a tax code that has millions of words [slate.com] the country is going to fall behind more efficient nations.

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday March 28 2014, @09:25AM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday March 28 2014, @09:25AM (#22495)

      Not necessarily. A massive prison system means lots of slave laborers.