IPR quandry
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- mydo
So i have a client who's business is producing designer chairs under licence from the original designers. In a recent visit to my office he discovered we had one of these, and was not happy.
http://www.amazon.com/Verner-Pan…At one point he wanted no connection between our two business for our purchase choice.
As a design company do you think it's OK to buy a replica chair? Or does that undermine your company and your clients?
- mydo0
We bought a replica due to there not being good alternatives.
$1000 chairs
Ikea chairs
replica chairs
crap
- JSK0
At least you should have put those fake chairs away.
- Nathan_Adams0
Considering Vitra sell them for anywhere up to $1500, for what is essentially just injection moulded plastic (not even fibreglass!), is there any wonder why people seek out replicas?
I'm not condoning it, but more people would buy the "real thing" if there wasn't a gazillion percent markup just to have "Knoll" or "Vitra" stamped on the bottom of it.
- Disagree. So what about a brochure, it's just paper and ink?MrT
- My 12 year old can do photoshop.JSK
- Do you charge a 3000% markup on a brochure?Nathan_Adams
- Paper and ink cost 2.5 cents at a local copy store. Thats $75 for the brochure at 3000% markup.JSK
- moldero0
tell the client to stop being such a pussy
- tOki0
Greed is a wonderful thing no
- mydo0
Indeed, if we hadn't bought the replica we wouldn't have spent 2000% more on a real one.
It's plastic, it's $50, it's strong. you can sit on it. that's all it needs to do. A plastic chair from IKEA would have been worse quality.
We didn't buy it because it's fake, but because it's a $50 chair from a chair shop. Is that wrong?
Shit, maybe i've been in China too long!
- You bought it because you value the aesthetics of that chair but dont want to spend the money.JSK
- utopian0
What a POS client, he has the audacity to pissed off at what? He produces designer chairs under licence that he did he not even design himself. He is good for nothing, parasitic, middle men, fuck him and his knock-off reproductions!
BTW- the client was Urban Outfitters was it?
- JSK0
Someone spent the time to design something. Someone else takes the design with out permission, uses it to make money with out spending the time or money to come up with the concept, design, test, and produce it.
This applies to everything that is innovative.
If you don't understand the value of creation, you should just walk away now.
- sublocked0
first world problems.
- JSK0
- JSK0
Are you trying to justify buying fake?
- Are you trying to avoid answering his question?Nathan_Adams
- Please stay out of this talentless so called designerJSK
- So yes then.Nathan_Adams
- So you are a talentless.JSK
- What is this? A 5yo's "I know you are, you said you are, but what am I?" argument?Nathan_Adams
- You seem to not know value of design so I guess you are a 5yr old.JSK
- mydo0
Say you're going on a picnic and you need a cheap soon for the day. Spoon 1 is a dollar and made like shit. Spoon 2 is a dollar, is good quality and has a nice design. Spoon 3 is almost the same as spoon 2, but it's $125. (you also need to go to a different shop to buy it)
What do you choose?
- JSK0
Wow
You are still trying to justify buying and using fake.
- JSK0