intellectual property
News
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.
Ideas
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.
Ideas
Whose chair is it anyway? How replica furniture took over the world
In the multi-billion dollar business of replica furniture production, we ask the tough questions about what bootlegging is doing to our design industry.
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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’.