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Well you can't trademark, patent, or copyright fonts. Nor can you do that for fashion (clothing/bags/shoes). So the companies that make these things, in order
by lazyier 5y ago
Well you can't trademark, patent, or copyright fonts. Nor can you do that for fashion (clothing/bags/shoes).
So the companies that make these things, in order to exploit the legal regime for profit, work around it. Such as Louis Vuitton or Nike shoes using trademarks as part of their styling. The fashion isn't copyrightable, but if you were to copy it you would violate their trademarks.
These laws are very arbitrary. Much more than the marketing for them suggests.
For example:
> Patents apply to inventions. Think: methods of doing something to achieve a particular application.
Patents, in the most literal sense, are just algorithms.
They are a series of rules that must be followed to achieve certain "inventions" or solve problems in a particular way.
People read patent's summary describing the invention and think that is the patent. It is not. The actual "meat" of the patent is the series of steps needed to achieve that invention.
The idea that software can both be patentable AND copyrightable just goes to show just how far off the rails the whole "IP" stuff is.
- Paianni 5y ago"Well you can't trademark, patent, or copyright fonts." In the US. They can be protected in the UK, Germany and France.
- fps-hero 5y agoI would say that patents and copywrite are orthogonal. A patent, hopefully, captures a truely new and original idea. Where as as copywrite encompass actual work. One huge problem with patentable ideas is that the idea should not obvious to those in the field, but intails a proof by contradiction. If the idea was obvious to one person, surely it was obvious to many. And is more clearly obvious to anyone who has seen the idea. Trade marks are only to protect branding, they stop mimicry that doesn’t violate copyright. Trade secrets are the real secret sauce. They are legally protected and by definition are unpatenable. It’s the only way to keep a competitive edge.
- asiachick 5y agofortunately for me I hate clothing with logos visible. why would I want to pay someone to advertise for them? I get the others do it to show off their wealth or taste.
- derbOac 5y agoThis is a modern scourge. I hate it. It's everywhere. There's absolutely no reason to have visible logos anywhere on clothing or other items unless they're paying you.