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LOS ANGELES AREA BOY SCOUTS COLLABORATE WITH MPAA TO TEACH YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT RESPECTING COPYRIGHTS
The MPAA, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Area Boy Scouts of America, has created a new education program to help raise awareness about the value of copyrights, including motion pictures, among the over 52,000 young people involved in Boy Scout programs in the greater Los Angeles area. The curriculum is part of an ongoing effort to educate young people about copyright protection and change attitudes towards intellectual property theft. Troops can choose from a number of activities to earn the “Respect Copyrights” patch, including creating a public service announcement that demonstrates the importance of copyright protection or visiting a movie studio to learn about the people, time and costs required to make a movie.
The curriculum (available at www.mpaa.org/press_releases/RespectCopyrightsCurriculum.pdf) is designed to teach participants about copyright theft and various forms of piracy, how to identify counterfeit CDs/DVDs, the consequences of film and music piracy, and most importantly, why protecting copyrights is important to them and to the local economy.
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