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".
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @02:08AM
What a shameful organization. This MAFIAA indoctrination sounds like what they do.c a_membership_controversies [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_Ameri
BSA is starting to sound like the other BSA...