Re: [ox-de] Burda goes open source fashion - do they?

Franz Nahrada wrote:
> Zwei junge Designerinnen von Burda, Nora Abousteit und Benedikta Kara,
> haben ihren Chef von einer Open Source Politik überzeugt.
> Two young fashion designers of Burda have convinced their boss to support
> Open Source fashion and introduce Open Source Patterns. They coexist with
> proprietary patterns in an unclear way....
> 
> http://www.burdastyle.com/
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> I wonder if anybody can do serious research on the implications of this
> and the dynamics! I did not find any protection and aggregation mechanism
> like GPL for "open source sewing patterns" so far

I tried looking at this in the 90s - there was already a long history of
clashes between a sharing design culture and magazines who would provide
forums and other support and then claim ownership of the designs.
Here's a typical story from the USA:

http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2000/1225/6616090a.html

There had then been attempts to create gpl style licenses, but people
were not interested and they disappeared. That seems to be true even
now: eg.

http://london-crafts.etla.org/

run by Kake who is a programmer and knows all about licenses..

Graham (you wrote in English first, don't blame me ;-)



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