May 26, 2010 at 18:54Fashion industry as a successful example of Open Source culture
The non-profit organization TED has posted on its website a video of Joanna Blackley's speech from the recent TEDxUSC 2010 conference at the University of Southern California. This is a very interesting lecture (15 minutes), the main idea of which is that the fashion industry with its poor use of copyright can be an example for the media industry and for the software market. It shows how the clothing design market generates hundreds of billions of dollars with almost no intellectual property (they only have trademarks, that is, you can completely copy someone else's design, but you can not copy the logo).
Joanna Blackley is Director of the Norman Center at the University of Southern California. If you do not want to watch the video, then all the necessary information on patent reform on the model of the fashion industry can be found on the page of her scientific project Ready To Share .
As for the performance, the frame at 12:20 video looks powerful, where Blackley shows as an example the comparative volume of markets that are poorly protected by copyright (on the left) and strongly protected by copyright (on the right).
via slashdot
Joanna Blackley is Director of the Norman Center at the University of Southern California. If you do not want to watch the video, then all the necessary information on patent reform on the model of the fashion industry can be found on the page of her scientific project Ready To Share .
As for the performance, the frame at 12:20 video looks powerful, where Blackley shows as an example the comparative volume of markets that are poorly protected by copyright (on the left) and strongly protected by copyright (on the right).
via slashdot