Yes, that’s right; the Boy Scouts of America now have a merit badge for copyright awareness. The AP report highlights that this is aimed toward music and movies. Let’s see them try to clean up and educate all the masses of people swiping material, including photos, for posting on their MySpace account. Now there’s a task!
As long as my swiped photos still have my URL watermark on there, then my blood pressure wouldn’t get too high. Come to think of it, I’d better finish watermarking everything on my site as I’ve seen a few swiped that I neglected to watermark. Sneaky bastards! One really dumb robber took two images from my site for their blog and had to nerve to totally mislabel the location that they were illustrating when it was clearly marked on my website where the shot was taken. That person has no integrity, much less journalistic integrity.