"Dag H" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>If we see "this" from an other point!
One of the design problems is the plagiarist, the people - company,
that are steeling a designers piece of work. <

This is one big issue and a very common one that is hard to eradicate.
You may think you got it skinned out, but when you see something
off the other line somewhere on the other point of the globe,
basically other then screaming your head off, its back to the drawing board
and start replanning what to write for patents. Maybe its not
going to be patents/protection anymore <!>


>Haw do we know how is behind the product, the graphic piece of work,
the e-mail ore even a person (What can you do with surgery!?). <

Make a plan, open the problem up and apply remedy with surgery.
But then again, surgery is usually the last resort. It uses far
too much money and time.
Eyeing for a good prevention rather than sorting the problem out
on the operating table is best way to tackle it. Very often, we only
start to make plans when problems emerge to a point we need the
scalpel to solve the problem.  The best solution takes the shortest
time, the least cost (whatever it may be) and stay in the healthiest
state of mind and body. The surgery is thus the worst remedy to a
ailement.


>In the Swedish television they have presented a program about design
and Form (In Swedish: "Bästa formen") The last program was about
plagiarism and haw to deal with that. They informed the us that Great
Britain is dealing strongly with that.
In a more philosophic way how is how and what is what!?
Are this a design problem. Are design about making "fakes" ore is it
about promoting the "real".
The indignation from some of the participants on the list point out a
symptom: "Wee do not have control!"<


Anything beyond that start point gets harder
to sort any problems out.  I was thinking how best
to keep ideas/innovations/ or even identity in this case.
Probably the most primitive way may well be the best solution.
At least I think it may just have to work for now..

On the bright side, people are realising
that the real thing is the far
better one by the end of the day.
Problem with companies sometimes
getting run over by fakes is that they are
often not nimble enough to protect and
upgrade themselves at a faster
rate than the 'copy cats'.
The worst thing  to happend to
them is that they may be seen as
the fake ones later !
Simply because the fake ones
sell better than them that people even think the
fakes are the originators !


Karen Fu