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And then he went on to make the pinkest pink, the bluest blue, etc. None of which can be used by Kapoor. Also note that vantablack is not "a color", it is a ma
by TheRealPomax 7y ago
And then he went on to make the pinkest pink, the bluest blue, etc. None of which can be used by Kapoor.
Also note that vantablack is not "a color", it is a manufactured material, and that is entirely ownable (although Pantone will tell you that colours can, indeed, be copyrighted. At least by name, which is why they have identifiers for basically every colour that can be made at the moment...)
- grawprog 7y agoPantone copyright issues aside, I do understand in this case it's more likely the patent to the actual nano-material itself and the writeup didn't necessarily make that clear, it's just a really strange case of exclusive patent licensing to me. I'd read before about vantablack, but it was only about how it worked, I wasn't aware of the exclusive licensing part of it.