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 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:
I can't fit all my beads into a 900 sq foot apartment!
Linda2
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
"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 -
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.
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.
Heh - people who can fit all their beads into that small a space are definitely not as addicted as they should be!
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.
Now THAT bothers me!
as addicted as they should be!<
Right on! And they call themselves "beaders?" Sheesh, LOL!
Carol in SLC My eBay auctions:
Heh - Beader Wannabeeeees. Buy more beads!!!!! Come talk to US!
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!
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.
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
Hehehehe - yeah, MJ is a wonderful, um, dealer!! She WILL give you a fix and keep you coming back, because she rocks!
I wonder if the woman or the paper will hear from Nordstrom's. I imagine they will protect their interest in this matter. Patti
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...").
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
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 . . .
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
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