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IP Australia launches new image searchable design database
IP Australia has launched the ‘Australian Design Search’ – a first-of-its-kind tool allowing registered design products to be searched by image.
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The copyright debate continues in Australia
Seeing one of its products copied by a national retailer, Made by Pen shares an opinion piece with Indesign on the replica industry and how one way of fighting back is through design integrity.
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When Will Demand Letters Backfire? Know Your Copyright Law
In the second of an exclusive series of articles about IP issues for furniture designers, lawyers Nicholas Lauw and Leow Jiamin explain why threats about copyright infringement need to be well founded.
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Does Copyright Sit Well With The Protection Of Furniture Designs?
Lawyers Nicholas Lauw and Leow Jiamin explain in the first of a short series of articles they’re writing for Indesignlive.sg about IP issues for furniture designers.
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What can design learn from Bowie Bonds?
For many furniture designers struggling to survive on two to five per cent royalties cheques, the recently departed David Bowie delivers a masterclass in ‘get rich or die at Salone’.
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The Real vs Fake Debate
With the Productivity Commission’s final report on Intellectual Property Arrangements due to be handed to Government later this month, the discussion on copyright protection for designers has reached a crescendo.