Scout's Honor
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substituteL.A. Boy Scouts new merit badge: 'Respect Copyrights'
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Boy Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, etc., etc. He is also respectful of copyrights.
Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music.
The patch shows a film reel, a music CD and the international copyright symbol, a "C" enclosed in a circle.
The movie industry has developed the curriculum.
"Working with the Boy Scouts of Los Angeles, we have a real opportunity to educate a new generation about how movies are made, why they are valuable, and hopefully change attitudes about intellectual property theft," Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, said Friday.
Scouts will be instructed in the basics of copyright law and learn how to identify five types of copyrighted works and three ways copyrighted materials may be stolen.
Scouts also must choose one activity from a list that includes visiting a movie studio to see how many people can be harmed by film piracy. They also can create public service announcements urging others not to steal movies or music.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Boy Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, etc., etc. He is also respectful of copyrights.Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music.
The patch shows a film reel, a music CD and the international copyright symbol, a "C" enclosed in a circle.
The movie industry has developed the curriculum.
"Working with the Boy Scouts of Los Angeles, we have a real opportunity to educate a new generation about how movies are made, why they are valuable, and hopefully change attitudes about intellectual property theft," Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, said Friday.
Scouts will be instructed in the basics of copyright law and learn how to identify five types of copyrighted works and three ways copyrighted materials may be stolen.
Scouts also must choose one activity from a list that includes visiting a movie studio to see how many people can be harmed by film piracy. They also can create public service announcements urging others not to steal movies or music.
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Date: 2006-10-20 09:06 pm (UTC)/vomit
Date: 2006-10-20 09:08 pm (UTC)~M~
lol internet
Date: 2006-10-20 09:12 pm (UTC)Re: lol internet
Date: 2006-10-20 09:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-20 09:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-20 09:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-20 09:23 pm (UTC)This brings to mind many amusing images, I expect none of them intended by the original author.
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Date: 2006-10-20 09:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-20 09:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-20 09:26 pm (UTC)Perhaps I'm in denial here, but do the Boy Scouts make a fart in a firestorm's worth of any kind of difference these days? At all?
In my youff, all the scouts meant was "the kids in uniform futzing around with balsa wood cars." I'd no interest at all, being busy with my rockets.
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Date: 2006-10-21 02:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-21 12:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-20 09:52 pm (UTC)I bet I sell a million of 'em.
(My favourite knock-off of all time is a wooden hair clip carved with: ABCDEGH)
hehe
Date: 2006-10-20 11:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-20 11:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-20 11:37 pm (UTC)I think I'll go watch a pirated movie now.
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Date: 2006-10-21 12:57 am (UTC)ANOTHER church conspiracy.
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Date: 2006-10-21 02:05 am (UTC)May as well have a patch for proper pubic grooming. "Look Mom, I shaved!"
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Date: 2006-10-21 05:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-21 02:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-21 04:13 am (UTC)Hi. I just added you. I found you thru friends on del.icio.us I look at your bookmarks all the time & save lots of them. You find the funnest stuff! Thanks for posting to del....... I'm darthkitten on there btw.
Joy,
Adj.
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Date: 2006-10-21 06:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-21 04:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-21 05:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-21 07:20 am (UTC)to the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
to be young believers ... "
(fair use quote? :-) )
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:36 pm (UTC)-former Brownie and GS