I just listened to Johanna Blakley’s Lessons from fashion’s free culture on TED.com, talking about how the fashion industry survives without copyright protection. Fashion designers have trademark protection, but not copyright. The courts decided clothes are utilitarian, so there’s no copyright. Lots of industries don’t have copyright. Food dishes, recipes, auto body sculpture, tattoos, and [...]
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“I don’t get no respect!” That was Rodney Dangerfield’s catchphrase. I say this is terribly true today in the universe of electronic communications where, I point out, it is we that don’t give any respect. In our typing and our composition we are lazy, slovenly, careless, thoughtless, nonchalant — in short, downright disrespectful — and [...]
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Darren Dahl brought back some bad memories with his A Small-Business Guide to Intellectual Property in The New York Times last week. Not that his story is off base, either: He seems to have things pretty much straight. Even so, he may be way too optimistic. Out here in the real world, from my experience [...]
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Be different. Do things the opposite of what people expect. That sets you apart. It’s a new age, an age of infinite splitting of big groups into smaller groups. Think of Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail or Seth Godin’s The Dip. What reminded me of this was browsing through Leo Babauta’s blog Zen Habits yesterday, [...]
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