Hi all,
I've been invited to attend the Europeana Fashion Conference [1] and participate in a workshop that will aim to: "inspire attendees with a better understanding of intellectual property and fashion and to support attendees with best practices in sharing fashion images online"
I'm assuming that's a working title. There will be an IP lawyer representing fashion businesses, people from cultural institutions and me.
I've been specifically asked to share best practices of sharing fashion images online and to show the different licensing options.
Since fashion is not only about copyright, but also trademarks and industrial designs (at least in the EU and Japan), I wanted to show a few examples of what goes, what not and some issues we haven't fully solved yet. Is anyone on this list aware of any cases/discussions/decisions on Commons regarding fashion pictures and IP? Anything interesting will help.
Thanks!
Dimi
FYI: WMBE and WMNL have in the past co-organised a fashion edit-a-thon with the Fashion Museum of Antwerp. [2]
[1] http://www.europeanafashion.eu/portal/blogdetail.html?post=europeana-fashion... [2] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2013/Contents/...
Hi Dimi,
Europeana Fashion has published a paper in 2013 discussing IPR in fashion (including touching upon design rights and such). I feel like this will be a useful read for the workshop. Something that might also be interesting is that I did a session on sharing together with Sebastiaan ter Burg last year at the ‘re-source: fashion in the digital age’ (http://www.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/re-source-fashion-heritage-digital-age) conference. This was about current fashion, and not necessarily heritage - but it was touched upon.
What I most remember about the session was the hesitation on sharing patterns and such by professionals, and also very much the focus on ‘inspiration’ by others and therefore not needing permission from rights holders. There were some archives attending as well, and there worry about portrait-rights of the models showing the fashion.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Lisette Kalshoven
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