Rob Myers <[email protected]> writes: > On 12/12/10 05:56, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > It depends what you mean by “style”. > > Clothing designs.
Okay, a concrete example of a style. > The economic and cultural evidence is that fashion thrives because of, > not despite, the absence of state-granted monopolies on designs... Do we have a concrete example of someone making the case that government or corporation should control a clothing design? Where is their reasoning for us to examine? I ask because the easy answer seems to be “no, because all public knowledge should be free culture”, which doesn't leave us much to discuss. -- \ “What is needed is not the will to believe but the will to find | `\ out, which is the exact opposite.” —Bertrand Russell | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
