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beck3906

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I was reading posts and saw the post about polymer clay canes and decided to do a bit of research and look for canes myself. During that research, I found a site where the artist had dozens of cane styles with a rather large posting saying all of her cane designs were copyrighted.

I then got to thinking about copyrights. I know this subject has been brought up before, but I wanted to take a different approach.

With the number of people in the entire world working in the arts areas today, surely somewhere there's 2 or more people designing, testing, experimenting, whatever, that have the same thoughts and come up with similar results. How can one person today say their product can be copyrighted so easily without doing some type of research as to the uniqueness of that product?

Who can say they really came up with the idea first?

I guess in looking at this clay artist designs I questioned how they could so easily tag the copyright on their product when so many clay artists are doing whatever to their clay to get a result that could look similar.

Taking this back to woodturning...

This hobby is so popular that surely 2 people somewhere come up with the same hollow form design, but can one copyright the design? Could I develop a unique pen body style and copyright that design?

Just food for thought. Thanks for yours.
 
They can copyright the design if it is unique - but, they would have to initiate action to enforce the copyright themself. That might be difficult.
Books can be copyrighted easily - sentences it would be much more difficult and single words it is impossible unless you invent a new word.
 
As been said in art work, the design is the only thing other than say the packing that can be copyrighted.
There is a big name jewelry designer/maker in NY. He has made another name and a lot of money from going after people and companies. That have copied his designs.
The real joke is that he has more lawyers than jeweler's working for him!
From what I know about the subject art wok copyright. She is trying to get honest people to by the canes from her, and not duplicate them!

As with the cane used in glass/enamel bead making. There are companies that make the molds for the building of milliafore canes whether shaped of built up. They have been made, for centuries in Venice. And made in homes across the US and Canada.

I just watched a DVD on the use of the molds and making the canes for glass bead work this week.

When it comes to copyright lawsuits generally the only one that wins are the lawyers!
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