Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Copyrighted fabric: no selling the stuff you make from it
Boing Boing: "Reprodepot sells fabric that comes with a 'license agreement' that prohibits you from making commercial goods out of the material. What this means, at the end of the day, is that they're not selling you anything at all -- instead, they're licensing the fabric to you, and it isn't your property, and you can't do with it what you want."
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I wonder if Reprodepot has a contract with another company [ie-walmart] that uses the prints for their clothing line. I wouldn't be suprised if such a contract would have a clause stating that Reprodepot would sell to no one, other than the company, to make fashions with their custom prints.
Even so, this reads to me as "you can buy eggs from us as long as you don't use them in your retaurant."
-Serrano
What is this obsession with owning everything? Everyone is so fixated on making money and not really thinking what their product is actually good for (like, making stuff, perhaps?) It seems as though we are becoming a society that can only think in terms of cash and can no longer understand another person's need for their services. It used to be that you could barter to get something of someone elses; or you could get something for free simply because you were a "friend" of the business. Now, it doesn't matter who you are, or what kind of marvelous garment you make from this companies' fabric; they just want your money.
What is with everyone and wanting to copyright everything. This is the second copyright issue that I have seen come up in the last 2 weeks. If people are getting that picky I am afraid to see whats going to come up next.
My first reaction to this article was an emphatic "Are you kidding me!?!?!?" How can people put a copyright on materials? That doesn't make any sense, fabric is a material, it's purpose is to have things made out of it. If a company makes fabric and says you can't do what you want with it, what is the point of having it in the first place. They might as well make fuzzy dice, you can't do much with those . . .
-Natasha Alejandro
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