Scouts honor--online.

• Position: MEDIA - Brief article

In addition to chopping firewood and cooking over campfires, the 52,000 Boy Scouts in Los Angeles can now team to "be prepared" to protect intellectual property. A new activity patch called Respect Copyrights has been developed by the Scouts organization and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The program win teach participants about copyright theft and various forms of music and film piracy. According to the MPAA, the worldwide movie industry--including foreign and domestic producers, distributors, theaters, video stores, and pay-per-view operators--lost more than $18 billion from piracy in 2005. Scouts...