- fashion industry doesn't have copyright, you can copy someone's design under your own protected trademark with impunity
- clothes are too utilitarian was the reason it was decided it shouldn't be protected
- they are 'influenced' by the broadest pallettes - everyone else's ideas - a culture of copying
copyright thinking goes that if there's no ownership, there's no incentive to create... crap - designers contstantly sue people copying them, and they lose
- Tom Ford - The counterfeit customer is not our customer, (so we aren't worrying about copying).
- virtues of copying - breathes life into old trends, vast pallette, trends get established more quickly
- induced obsolescence accellerates change, initiates innovation
- designers create a signature look and everyone knows when they are being copied
- jokes can't be copyrighted, food can't be copyrighted, cars can't be copyrighted, furniture, magic, hairdos, opensource software, databases, tattoo artists shares, fireworks, game rules, smell of perfume - comics now have personas, and it works the same as a designer
- designers copy themselves
- in Japan they are protected, but they can't prove their novelty standard the criteria are too high
- in Europe the novelty standard is too low, slight changes result in new protections
- who owns a look is hard to pin down
- and don't talk to me about money - the copyrighted industries earn a FRACTION of the non-copyrighted industries (you should see this graph... I've popped it in down below. Mindblowing x 855 x 855. Zap!)
- suggests the fashion industry provides a better industry to use as a model in the digital future
- readytoshare.org
"Here's a novel idea to save the planet: Remove the main cause of its woes - homo sapiens. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT - pronounced "vehement") proposes the phasing out the human race. "When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, and evolve (if they believe in evolution)," offers the movement's website. But 'it's going to take all of us going'." See www.vhemt.org SOURCE: Email invite. I thought I was the only one who thought like this. Everyone I know thanks the universe that I didn't study microbiology. I would have developed a human-specific killer virus. WE are the vermin.
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