Beading article in the Atlanta paper

I check the online version of the Atlanta paper on a regular basis to see what's up in the old town. Look what I found today:

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I can't fit all my beads into a 900 sq foot apartment!

Linda2

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JustBeaded

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 5:48:30 -0400, JustBeaded wrote (in message ):

You know, that wasn't the thing that struck me with the article. There was a quote that one woman who takes clippings from the Nordstrom catalog and copies them for her own use. That bothered me.

Kathy N-V

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Kathy N-V

"Your whole collection can fit in a 2- foot-by-2-foot box."<

OMG - is she nuts???? The only beads I have that would fit in that size box are my Delicas - and that's only cuz I don't use them very much!! My 11/o seed beads wouldn't even fit in that size box, and I don't use them all that much either, LOL!! I would need a U-Haul to take the rest of my beads anywhere!!!

Carol in SLC (Newest stuff -

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Carol in SLC

If it's for her own use, and not to be sold, what is the problem with that ? We all make pieces using the instructions in the beading mags...as long as we don't sell them or claim the design as ours, there is no copyright violation.

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Barbara Forbes-Lyons

It's not so much that she does it, but that the newspaper reports it as if it's no big deal, which gives it a dignity it doesn't deserve.

There used to be a show called "Small Business 2000" on PBS. I watched it every week - until they had an episode about a lady who sells baby bonnets. She explained proudly how she had copied her bonnet from one she had bought at a craft fair. Here she was being held up as a paragon of good business because she had made a lot of money - with someone else's design. I lost all respect for the show and quit watching.

BTW, I read your other post on originality and thought it "said it all".

Unfortunately cluelessness shown by that woman and BeadingFrenzy is not the exception, it's the norm. I don't like it, but that's what's out there.

I have a theory that until a person actually sweats out an original idea, they won't have a clue what's wrong with blatant copying. Once they feel protective toward their own original creation, they can understand.

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Tante Lina

Heh - people who can fit all their beads into that small a space are definitely not as addicted as they should be!

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Kandice Seeber

I agree - I have no problem with copying anything out of a magazine, if it's for personal use. It's when they take the same thing and sell it either as their own or specifically as a knock off that bothers me. I don't know how they get away with that stuff in the fashion world.

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Kandice Seeber

Now THAT bothers me!

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Kandice Seeber

as addicted as they should be!<

Right on! And they call themselves "beaders?" Sheesh, LOL!

Carol in SLC My eBay auctions:

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Carol in SLC

Heh - Beader Wannabeeeees. Buy more beads!!!!! Come talk to US!

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Kandice Seeber

Good gravy - I've got an entire room dedicated to beads. Albeit it's not filled to the gills with them, but a 2x2 box? HAW!

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Barbara Forbes-Lyons

I wish I'd written, or phoned, and asked them that. It's a sign of how commonplace this ignorance is, that without a thought, they showed her obvious pride in how she took the bonnet apart, figured out how it was made, then copied it.

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Tante Lina

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Marilee J. Layman

Come see my store! I'll fix you right up!

A 2x2 box held my collection for maybe one week after I discovered beads...

Mj

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Mj

Hehehehe - yeah, MJ is a wonderful, um, dealer!! She WILL give you a fix and keep you coming back, because she rocks!

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Kandice Seeber

I wonder if the woman or the paper will hear from Nordstrom's. I imagine they will protect their interest in this matter. Patti

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Beads1947

Agreed.

I clip pictures of beaded jewellery that take my fancy from magazines and re-create them _for myself_. I also save images from the local home shopping nework website to recreate, but their prices for beaded stuff is ludicrous! (Nearly AUD$200 for a simple strand of tumbled stones as a necklace? AUD$50 for a stretch bracelet of purple glass beads???)

I don't sell the stuff I make, and I don't claim the design as mine ("I got the idea for this from...").

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mªdcªt

And my move to Portland included 24 boxes averaging about 1.5 cubic feet of beads each. Mostly seed beads. Densely packed. People tried picking up two at a time while we were loading the van, opened their eyes very wide, went "Oh!" and usually put the second box down. Or grit their teeth and staggered a bit ;-).

Deirdre

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Deirdre S.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. :

]And my move to Portland included 24 boxes averaging about 1.5 cubic ]feet of beads each. Mostly seed beads.

i'm working on it. otoh, i DO have 50-60 cases of books in storage because the house isn't big enough for enough book cases . . .

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