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Interesting talk from Johanna Blakley on how fashion survives with no copyright. Or, more accurately, how fashion survives because they have no copyright – trademark is enough.
The argument is simple: fashion is too utilitarian to copyright. It would be wrong to allow something so utilitarian to fall into the hands of a few companies and designers.
More information about the Ready to Share project and a PDF of the slides from the talk here.
There are two really interesting slides used in the talk. This one, which shows the ‘two main binary oppositions within copyright law’ (ie utilitarian vs artistic objects / idea vs expression of idea – as shes says, these are unstable oppostions) and demonstrates how little consistency there is in the current copyright framework:
And this one, which will probably be all over the place and is self-explanatory:
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[...] You can see all of the slides from Blakley’s talk here (and there is more information about her research at ReadyToShare.org) – here is one of the key pictures (grabbed from the talk by Simon Bostock): [...]