[OT] - does IP exist?

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Yigal Chripun wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Wow, bad example. Copying a chair is indeed illegal and proven to be so
>> in court. Take the Stressless chair by Ekornes as an example.
>> 
> 
> are you sure you can put copyright on chairs? that sounds very strange
> to me. I don't know the details of your example, but are you sure it
> isn't about patent law rather than copyright law?
> i.e the original creator patented some design idea (which is
> information) and so the restriction is on that design idea rather than
> the chair itself. you cannot copy the chair only as a consequence.

It was about copying the design. Designs are as protected as the written
word. Another example in a similar vein is how you can get 10k Euro fines
for walking around with inexpensive copies of expensive hand bags.

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