Freedom In Fashion: No IP, No Patents, No Licensing

I've often wondered about Chefs in this respect, too.<p>While it seems really unfair that the guy who 'invented' Bannoffee Pie never made his fortune from it it has generally been of benefit to society as:<p>a) we can all eat Bannoffe pie as anyone can make it and b) it doesn't appear to stifle the creation of new recipes.<p>Plus if there had been IP protection for the creation of Bannoffee pie I seem fairly sure that the Chef would never have seen any benefit - just the owner of the restaurant and whichever chain store or supermarket he eventually sold the IP to.

I'm not a big proponent of IP in general. However, I feel comparing a creation which can be converted to a digital form to one which cannot doesn't make much sense.<p>In the industries with top 3 sales showed in the video (Food, Auto and fashion), the product cannot be transfered to another person without losing your won possession. Even if you copy a design you still must manufacture the apparel. Even if you copy the design of a car you still must manufacture it.<p>However, that's not the case with software, music or movie transferred over the internet. You don't have to re-write a software to share a verbatim copy. You don't have to direct and shoot the whole movie again to make a copy of it.

The claim that open source doesn't have copyrights tends to cast her other claims into doubt. But in principle it would be great if there were no copyrights or patents in software. It would mean fewer things to worry about, and a whole category of grief would disappear.<p>Fashion is not exactly analogous to software though, because in fashion there are physical atoms which are difficult to copy and move around.

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The comments for this video are a lot more intelligent than usually found on Youtube.

I suspect that, had the car industry been encumbered with IP we would have been driving Model-T's for a lot longer than we did.

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Though I don't know much about fashion, I can't help but think that the investment required to think up of a new fashion design must pale in comparison to the investment required for innovation in other industries. Perhaps years to write a book, millions to shoot a movie, millions to design a chip.<p>That probably makes all the difference in terms whether or not IP is a socially beneficial system.