Does any one have any information on how I might become a supplier of walking sticks for the Boy Scouts?

Any help would be appreciated.

I ran a different Scouting Forums website until I got tired of dealing with the childish behavior of some of the adults who were members. Threatening each other, me, lawsuit threats, letters from lawyers, very unscoutlike behavior…

Looking back I should have kept it going and just been a heavy handed moderator… oh well.

I forgot where I saw it, but somewhere on the licensing page it says educational materials are exempt, which seems weird because you could do a lot of damage putting out the wrong information as an educational material. I always looked at my site as a newspaper opinion column distributing information. Newspapers sell ads, too, so I figured it was okay that I was talking about Scouting and putting ads up at the same time.

All right I rationalized my way to that point, but it still seems okay to me. The only one I worry about is Girl Scouts because I’ve actually been more critical of them and they might get ticked off and try to lean on me. Given that I don’t have any ads at the current time, though, I figure I’m in the clear.

I agree with your license issue. If I had to pay the $250 or whatever the licensing fee is, plus some unmentioned royalty amount every time I used a Scouting term I’d be thousands of dollars in debt by the end of the first day.

Back when I ran a Scouting Forum I contacted them in regards to the website url I was using, as it was stated that you would need a license to use terms in urls, however there was no info on the procedures for a website. I was told they were looking into a couple of possibilities but in the mean time I was fine. I have yet to hear anything different so I’m still working under that statement. If I were to have to license the use for my domain, I’d have to close shop…