CRI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Disintermediation, Miuccia Prada, Cory Doctorow
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Justified to maintain incentive to create required to ensure innovation; More rigid in the face of changing technologies, social norms. The piracy paradox : the argument in favour of strong ip rights typically suggests that copying destroys the incentive for new innovation, common practice in the fashion industry suggests the opposite, that rampant copying drives innovation and benefits originators. Ii: the piracy paradox: the authors offer theories to explain the piracy paradox. Theory a: induced obsolescence: apparel operates as positional goods, diffusion leads to dissipation of social value, status-seekers seek new designs, low ip fosters the fashion cycle as free appropriation of designs accelerates the diffusion of designs and styles. Miuccia prada: we let others copy us. Theory b: anchoring: designers" frequent referencing of each others" work creates dominant themes that are then exhausted. Responding to and evaluating the authors" claims: sustainability, environmental and human costs.