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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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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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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.