
I was in Berlin last week and surprised to see the storefront above. I still do not understand it, it is a complete and utter rip off. They
even have a website. But, how could they possibly get away with this kind of thing? Because it is reversed? Because they are in a different business? Or is it a case of serendipity, two people coming together with the same names as the founders of a
certain bank. I clearly have a lot to learn about Intellectual Property.
Something like... mmmh...
Otto (just hire a guy named Otto...) and he would be working on a desk job.
Otto-Desk.
Sounds more professional already no?
Ze germanz probably have the same system.
true you could do this to a certain extent. But, this is still one heck of a: copy or coincidence.
The joke is that these opticians called their store Sachs & Goldman which has rather a lot of overlap with Goldman & Sachs the bank.
It has nothing directly to do with 3D printing apart from the fact that we are very interested in and curious about Intellectual Property. Where are the limits, where can you do what? How do we protect our community etc.
Take for example Pirate Bay, who just lost their suit for simply referencing Bit Torrents. The Movie Industry says it's ok to film a TV showing a movie with a camcorder for school projects, but not to rip a movie directly from a DVD. We've been recording music off the Radio for free for years, and yet MP3's have been stalked like actual theft for the last 10 years. The TV Industry has been trying to institute a Recording Flag on DVR's to stop them from recording shows, despite the existence of Pro-VCR court cases for decades now. And large companies like Apple continue to patent inventions that they have no plans to actually produce, just to stop others from completing against them in the future.
It seems like the only future for innovation and free creative expression is underground.
WORD!
Shapeways depicts the Sachs & Goldman store in Berlin....
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