As part of its Initiative on the Humanistic Study of Innovation, Indiana University, Bloomington, has invited the Lear Center’s Deputy Director Johanna Blakley to share her research on the culture of copying in the fashion industry. Industries with strong copyright protection (music, film, TV, publishing) are finding it hard to compete in the digital marketplace: how do you protect your creative output when amateurs can make perfect copies with the click of a button? While it may be tempting to believe that increased copyright protection is the only thing that can save these industries (and the struggling artists within them) the example of the fashion industry suggests otherwise. Blakley presents her research on the fashion industry and several other “low-IP” industries that treat their creative output as a commons – shared resources that can be freely reused, recreated and recombined.
“Innovative Cultures of Copying” is an interdisciplinary series involving the Schools of Journalism, Law, Business, Music, Informatics, and the College of Arts & Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. The series is part of the Initiative on the Humanistic Study of Innovation, sponsored by the Provost, and the “Innovate Indiana” project.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Indiana University, Bloomington
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