Bonnie Staffel on fri 28 may 99
May 27, 1999
Hi Frank,
Your comments on having a copyright on your work interests me. However,
I would appreciate your walking me and other copyriter neophytes through
the process, approximate costs, etc.
It has been my understanding that even though you create a piece of
art/pottery, all a copier needs to do is change it a bit and is off the
hook, so to speak. Is this a correct assumption? A local potter has
been producing a certain freehand painterly design on her pots and then
in the local grocery store the other day, found cast mugs and other
pottery with the same freehand style painting with just the background
color changed. These mugs were made in Thailand. I had heard of such
ripoffs, not by our loyal Clayarters, but those looking for a quick
buck, selling designs to the cheaper foreign producers which in turn
return to our markets in the US, undercutting the ethics of being hand
made. There are European marketeers which are trading in on foreign
admiration of Native American work, and the ripoffs are occurring in
this area also.
Thank you for your comments.
Bonnie Staffel, Charlevoix, MI.
Debra Wills on mon 7 jun 99
Hi Bonnie! Unfortunately---our US copyright laws don't cover us out of the
US!....They don't have to adhere to US laws!!!!! (Free trade???)LOL-not too
funny- also; people can copy your work...if they change 30%...I copyright to
save myself..from being stopped from producing my own work!
I can see why all of us are so interested in this subject! It is our lives
we're talking about here!!!
Debra
Hi Frank,
It has been my understanding that even though you create a piece of
art/pottery, all a copier needs to do is change it a bit and is off the
hook, so to speak. Is this a correct assumption? A local potter has
been producing a certain freehand painterly design on her pots and
then-----------bonnie
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