Ali and Rob, you got it! Just want to add that there is no precedence. Never in the history of the United States has there been a fashion copyright.
There is trademark which means you cannot put someone else's name on there. That's is perfectly legitimate and we should be for this. Copyright is a different matter. It is about the style of clothes. You ask that is vague. Why yes of course it is vague. But, that is done on purpose. So small independent designers that are dragged into court will have to put up loads of money for a long dragged out arguing process. Even if the small fashion designer wins the case, the other party does not have to reimburse legal fees. How's that for legal intimidation? We really should be taking this seriously and spreading the word. Come the new year, it may very well pass under the radar and very quickly. For those of you who know their copyright history, that is pretty much how the DMCA happenend! On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Ben Finney < [email protected] <bignose%[email protected]>>wrote: > 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 >
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