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1. Creativity in the fashion industry might be a more general model for the entertainment industry. But let us not forget differing levels of fixed and capital costs.
2. People in small, tribal societies have the most violence in their dreams.
3. Richard Epstein's new book.
4. Markets in Everything, this time Hasidic reggae.
5. "Brincos" are special sneakers, equipped with secret storage compartments, for illegal aliens to cross the border. Now they are hip.
6. Matt Yglesias on the bureaucratic infighting behind the resignation of Larry Summers. Here is more.
7. Quantum computers that work even without running.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on February 23, 2006 at 07:39 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink
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» The Fashion Piracy Paradox from Fashion-Incubator
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Related to #1, check out "The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design by Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman, a recent UVA law school working paper.
Posted by: scott cunningham at Feb 23, 2006 9:32:59 AM
Sorry - hyperlinks must not work.
http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1074&context=uvalwps
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Posted by: Wild Pegasus at Feb 23, 2006 1:17:33 PM
Re that computer item, number 7;sorry to quote at length from Boing Boing But...
Utilizing two coupled optical interferometers, nested within a third, Kwiat's team succeeded in counterfactually searching a four-element database using Grover's quantum search algorithm. "By placing our photon in a quantum superposition of running and not running the search algorithm, we obtained information about the answer even when the photon did not run the search algorithm," said graduate student Onur Hosten, lead author of the Nature paper. "We also showed theoretically how to obtain the answer without ever running the algorithm, by using a 'chained Zeno' effect."
Through clever use of beam splitters and both constructive and destructive interference, the researchers can put each photon in a superposition of taking two paths. Although a photon can occupy multiple places simultaneously, it can only make an actual appearance at one location. Its presence defines its path, and that can, in a very strange way, negate the need for the search algorithm to run.
"In a sense, it is the possibility that the algorithm could run which prevents the algorithm from running," Kwiat said. "That is at the heart of quantum interrogation schemes, and to my mind, quantum mechanics doesn't get any more mysterious than this."
That last sentence...
Posted by: EH at Feb 23, 2006 2:02:35 PM
Fashion: One of the most vexing of all the arts...I just don't see the comparison. A wrap is a wrap and a fur coat is a fur coat. Pants? Still pants.
5,000 years just has not seemed to make a big difference...
Where's the fashion industries "silent film" era?
And fashion's Giotto (who, seemingly wore about the same thing as John Belushi in Animal House 500 years later)?
Fashion's Da Vinci? Jazz?
I don't think the music/movie/art vs. fashion piracy thing really works.
Maybe fashion vs. receipe piracy.
By the way, I loved the Bob Mackie show at New Yorks FIT some years ago...I'm not someone who thinks good fashion is easy to pull off.
Posted by: TR at Feb 23, 2006 10:30:20 PM
But there's a big difference between the fashion industry and the music and movie industries. Knock-offs are possible in the fashion industry, but those still have to be designed, produced in factories, shipped, distributed, and retailed. Individual consumers can't download/share/borrow/give away flawless copies of designer dresses for $0. If they could, the fashion industry would also feel the pain.
That's not to say that the entertainment industries can't survive and thrive despite all the copying--perhaps they'll be able to, but it's just not the same situation as in the fashion industry.
Posted by: Slocum at Feb 24, 2006 9:06:06 AM
Slocum: good point. Even if one has an idea -borrowed or not- the product development, sourcing and production costs can be significant barriers to "theft". And honestly, most of the people doing knock offs are making lousier products than the original. Often, the ones doing knock offs are start up ventures themselves. Insult to injury, it is not unusual for a knock off "designer" to press potential contractors into signing non-disclosures. Really. I've seen everything.
There's a newish blog on fashion related IP at www.counterfeitchic.com (no affiliation).
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