excitement. explains the 19. results here on t.w. . a costly copyright infringement lawsuit you don't want to find one of them in the mail i'm talking about all those images you share on social media breaking the law or has someone stolen you'll work hands off copyright i'm been this is made thanks for joining us copycats nothing new it's just got easier in this brave new world

but also easier to track down offenders thanks to your digital take we'll get to that later in the show 1st to the valuable one offs still produce the coatings the original designs 100 years on furniture and household objects from the legendary ballet house so sort out the that unfortunately fakes about our reporter with the next installment in our series the business of bow house branding the zeitgeist. it's a movie stars it was the design school. it's no one it's not just the stories and legends it became a brand the bounce house was to change the won't. need it lives on in our own product design and it is a battle over the name and. we got a warning letter from the bauhaus d.i.y. chain that issue hadn't even occurred to us because they said. is

a money spinner even a century later. no one copy something boring. this lamp is a classic it was designed in 1924 by bauhaus student vilhelm feld it was not commercially marketed at the time but today it is one of the most popular bauhaus products and one of the most copied the table lamp is now manufactured by techno lumen ingrain men it's the only company in the world to have an official license to do so it was granted by varg and felt himself the head of the company has been fighting against counterfeits for years. to make the sale of fakes generates at least as much money as we make with our products.

for a bargain filled lamp to count as authentic it has to be constructed according to the original design details count the metal parts a nickel plated the stem and base of this variant a made of glass the cable is cloth covered and the foot of the lamp has about techno lumen stamp on the internet countless vendors sell bauhaus classics you can buy what is called. for 70 euro's the real thing costs more than 6 times as much. the only objects that are copied this also furniture like the barcelona chair by miss found are. like tilting at windmills more and more fakes are always appearing all licensed manufacturers like us have to fight them if we didn't it would probably mean the end of all fantic replicas like ours. it wouldn't be possible to manufacture a real vatican for. for 70 year as the production is

a labrat each lamp is assembled by hand the parts come from regional suppliers an authentic license sells for around $450.00 euros. copyright law is complex and differs from country to country techno lumen pays a lawyer to pursue the makers and marketers of an authorized replicas. often they're just letterbox companies one might say it's a limited company based in london but there isn't actually anyone there it's warehouse full of fakes might be in italy and the phone number you find that it's online shop might be in germany and the money often flows all around the world by a panama or wherever there are definitely criminal outfits behind all those. teachers and students at the bar house design products and buildings they put on

exhibitions and published magazines it's not just its product designs all the architecture that has become legendary the entire movement is considered visionary powerhouse has come to stand for freedom non-conformist i'm thinking outside the box it has also become a brand when you buy a powerhouse product today you're also paying for it's a loss tree is history. to marcus and 10 or a an agency for brand development was hired to create the 100 years of bauhaus campaign. the agency's creation of directors says their strategy and both to bring the brand up to date and to evoke the authentic spirit of the house. they took great delight in experimentation and bouncing ideas off each other across disciplines the amazing quality of what they came up with has to do with this

continuous debate and interaction among the different fields. the bauhaus is sometimes considered to have been ostia and severe but it also had its colorful and playful side andreas weber's says the zest for life it embodied has often been looked. they had fun they partied they were disciplined in their work and the way they pursued their ideas but there were personalities and they had a lot of fun with each other. because once i realized that the heaviness was gone. suddenly i could totally relate to it and that helped me make something new and of our time. between artistic play. new tendency is a design studio in berlin that sees itself in the tradition of the powerhouse revolutionary. supplies modernist principles

conceptual design clean a statics and functional form the products are hand crafted in germany it was founded by 2 brothers manuel and christoph manuel studied at the bauhaus university environment he does not recreate bauhaus products he designs new ones in the spirit of his alas trees previous s's. we didn't want to make things the way they had always been made but to wipe the slate clean. and really start over that mentality and that approach is extremely inspiring. i see reduction caring down as a mega trend in society. less is more. it was intended to be an ironic catchy slogan my bauhaus is better than yours.

the design studio got into trouble for that bauhaus is the name of a chain of d.i.y. stores in germany that company took them to court because it had obtained the rights to use the name back in the 1960 s. . we got this cease and desist order and we had to remain. that was a catastrophic start to our new business. but in retrospect i'd say that energized us and really got us going into holding up the company. without a change of name to tendency the company as it is today probably wouldn't exist. and. with success comes the risk and the honor of being imitated only copied counterfeiters make life tough for those who make the real thing it's a testimony to the intellectual and emotional power of the powerhouse that it still

inspires both emulation and. intellectual property theft is a reason behind the us china trade war not all economies follow the rules but at least there is a legal framework to protect innovators added. it wasn't always that way imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and studying the masters was the custom is a short history of copyright. where did the concept of copyright originate. in ancient times the notion of intellectual property was unheard of any book could be copied by someone else then sold and distributed. the advent of the printing press came mass production with that came badly made or inaccurate reprints this was very annoying for all those even if royalties didn't yet exist back then.

the 1st copyright protection came in the form of privileges granted to printers which gave the 1st publisher of a work exclusive printing rights for 2 years. it wasn't until 1710 with the introduction of the statute of queen around in britain little things were guaranteed protection for the 1st time. in france that came much later author's rights were enshrined in civil law an author's work was considered a personal expression inseparable from their person. in the united states copyright aim to strengthen the rights of publishers to promote public education in 1037 legitimate confederation a precursor to the unified germany guaranteed authors rights china is different while there have been copyright laws since 1010 hardly anyone sticks to them and transcription and copying have always been a key part of learning. despite all these different regulations 1952 saw the

introduction of global rules giving unlimited protection to authors copyright law is constantly being updated to cover things like the various new media circulating on the internet today that makes copyright protection more important than ever. anyone who posts a copyrighted work online without the permission of the author can face a hefty fine even 3 years imprisonment. that you you once platforms such as facebook and youtube to prevent illegal downloads by their users even making the platforms legally liable for such abuse and wants to ensure that copyright owners such as writers musicians graphic artists journalists and photographers can make a living from their work ensuring is protected from theft and misuse. that's the idea that all reality imports of pirated products into the european union amount to around $121000000000.00 euros

a year that represents the value of almost 7 percent of everything imported into the e.u. ripoffs includes shoes toys mobile phones music movies computer games the list goes on you've got to think about all the time and money spent on creating a certain look for the products the branding of consumer items is big business when someone copies them and creates a substandard version that can hurt the reputation of the original and cut into sales. the reason so much money goes into brands is to create something immediately recognizable that we've become connected to that can include the shape of a device or even the color it's why to global cosmetic companies have been fighting for you is over a certain shade of blue. navy of blue is the face of the brand. it has stood for its values since 1925 trust closeness and care this kind of mental association a certain color

a particular product is of real importance to the manufacturer marketing expert on seizures says the value of a brand has everything to do with the positive attitude of consumers as well but as regards neither here you couldn't put a number on what it's worth you could say it's billions or millions the point is that a brand is a social phenomenon with commercial economic implications and not the other way around. the. viewer is a social phenomenon as is the association with a certain shade of blue and white lettering that i'd already that's what we call an asset brand equity though it's hard to quantify that how. much is that market does in many almost of the vaguest. at the navia flagship store in hamburg you can acquire not only skin and hair care products but unrelated things as well.

what they all have in common is that they're all the brand shade of blue and the great thing about such brands is that they didn't simply emerge out of nothing all thanks to advertisement advertising and marketing can provide support but the key thing was the strategic decision to stick with glue you know sticking to its colors may have paid off for navia but other enterprises have chosen change to achieve telecom for example for many years it was part of the dacha past which sports yellow alexandra engelhard does brand management for georgia to work on it was spun off when the state monopoly was privatized in 1996 the telecoms company then switched to magenta. deutsche telekom made a point of distinguishing itself from deutsche post and its characteristic yellow on aim to find a color that works for it in its own right. the company's ads feature lots of

magenta the hue is now central to the brand around the world it has registered trademarks for the color with respect to certain product groups in many countries if a competitor tries to use magenta telecoms lawyers go after it. that's placed for title we have to defend our right to the color if we hear of any firm using it in a product which we have registered our trademarks we tell it to stop. if it doesn't comply it'll be a matter for the courts. competitor mobile com for example dared to use the color and lost 20 of the com sued trademark holders taken fraction seriously when he lifted the fifa manages to establish an association with a certain color in the mind of the public it has to do whatever it can to defend it so right to it that's what branding is about it has to do so even if the media to

write it as pathetic or laughable. defending a brand isn't always very pleasant but it certainly makes sense. stories of special interest. company colors are an asset worth protecting. the more firm expands into other countries the more likely it is to encounter others with the same or similar livery like spain's bank or sometime there which must a little battle in germany against carson savings banks involving their hue of red but back to me via. the company behind the brand bio stuff has been in a decade long dispute with you know a lever over its blue. among the legal issues are whether a color alone can be a brand or only in association with say go or name neither company wanted to talk to us about the proceedings. since new year's seeks to promote wellbeing

it probably doesn't want customers whether at its flagship store or around the world to be thinking about legal conflicts when they see the blue at the heart of the dispute. just pick a different blue the internet has made copy illegally even easier you can be a curse for professional photographers especially because this kind of copyright infringement can be difficult to trace and even more difficult to enforce but then it's not a free of charge help yourself or you can eat smallest board again there are laws so watch out it's young company hunts down picture thieves. several 1000000000 images are posted to the web every day including countless photographs. over 3 quarters of them it's estimated are posted illegally.

copy track is a company here in berlin that's developed software to identify such abuse. busy for signs up with this creates a user profile which takes just a few seconds and then uploads his or her photos. we get to work on the next day he'll find in his inbox on our site. that is copies of his original photo. the clever software also identifies how long an image was online and who posted it then copy track demands a license fee on behalf of the photographer and threatens legal proceedings if it's not paid. processed 2000 cases a week 210008 month. each is worth an average of 350 euros

so we're talking about trying to collect licenses 3 used to the tune of 350000 euros a month. is one of copy tracks 20000 clients. and photographers are paid for their work and the publication of their work it's not fair and can cause them serious financial pain. carlos has a spacious studio in berlin he renovated it himself. i love being here it's my place of work but it's also my place of refuge. carlos doesn't want to forego license fees copy track helps him get what to him. this photo was stolen used without authorization or payment. at some point it popped up on a government website the economics ministry but without a credit nobody had ever contacted me about it. klaus also works outside his

studio travel photography as one of his passions. he took these pictures of arctic fishing in canada. visa from south america. this photo of a town in colombia was also stolen it was found on a travel website. overnight copy tracks scanned millions of sites with similar images by morning the identity of the culprit had been established. that. it was a commercial traveller blog not a private individual clearly had ties to travel agencies so it was definitely a money making enterprise i got a 465 euro license fee after the fact. they had it up for

a certain period of time and copy truck worked out a suitable 50 copy track down with a few. of the deal is that 70 percent of the total feat goes to the photographer or image owner and 30 percent to copy track. young kraus likes the arrangement he doesn't have to get involved in hunting down photo thieves or hiring a lawyer to press his claims. now patients are created to protect brilliant original ideas ways to implement them and with a bit of luck make a lot of money. but a surprising number of patients languish in obscurity either because they're simply not relevant at all would never take it up and acted on what about giving them a 2nd chance that's exactly what a startup does it gathers and analyze is peyton's old and new i report. joined the search for hidden gem. it feels like these

pages are whispering at me the rows upon rows of files the patent office 10 stories of brain waves and strokes of genius of ideas that change the world of inventions that revolutionized research innovation that drove progress. every idea every invention inspires further invention take the transition from more strong carts to cars right now we're in the process of taking another innovative step toward alternative fuels will eventually be seeing electric cars on the streets running on batteries and fuel systems and these systems will give rise to further inventions. but not all patents prove profitable some are rendered obsolete by progress others registered simply to hinder rivals research then they end up languishing in obscurity like the 1625415 which was registered 7 years ago.

busy this patent for example belongs to taylor called it's a new method of location tracking must be a good idea the company isn't using it what does that mean this is now the end for this patent or does it maybe get a 2nd chance. need a 2nd chance or a 3rd or even a forest. tim palmer has a soft spot for neglected patents in fact he makes money with them his start up by political skills uses up to date information on the patent market the data is loaded into a gigantic database then turns into graphics customers can understand if for example of his compared patent registrations from google microsoft and apple but couldn't the companies themselves do this kind of thing. is growing increasingly important there are nearly $100000.00 new international

patents registered a month and no one can keep up so there's a demand for software that can intelligently evaluate that they can understand what they're about and determine if they're relevant and valuable for. customers mainly come from research heavy sectors i t companies for example. helps them keep tabs on the competition and also keep track of their own and huge patents for license or sale. so is there any hope for our neglect of patent. can help us find out. in front of the users of this information the content of the patent the to work out whether other similar patterns exist and whether other companies are active in this field. because they are potential customers. for them. it turns out a location tracking patterns could well find a taken a different sector. game designers for example are researching similar technologies

as are car manufacturers as they seek to design autonomous vehicles. doesn't that is a positive sign and shows me ok these are sectors where we could try to position the patent and i could license it to relevant companies and give the patent a 2nd chance and hopefully monetize that. so it could to really well yes it could do really well perhaps not in the way the inventor originally intended but it could be put to a different use. so e.p. 162-5415 might just get a 2nd chance and with temple months help other news patents could also find a new lease on life and no longer gather dust in the patent office good ideas aren't always appreciated straight away sometimes you just have to hang on. and hang on in there that's all for today all made i can assure you this has been

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