Comments on: Emeco settles dispute over Navy Chair copy http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/30/emeco-settles-dispute-over-navy-chair-copy/ architecture and design magazine Tue, 21 May 2013 15:54:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Jack http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/30/emeco-settles-dispute-over-navy-chair-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-1107185 Jack Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:25:53 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=287289#comment-1107185 A 1944 design - doesn't copyright cease after 50 years anyway? A 1944 design – doesn't copyright cease after 50 years anyway?

]]> By: brononamous http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/30/emeco-settles-dispute-over-navy-chair-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-1106623 brononamous Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:01:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=287289#comment-1106623 Too true. Too true.

]]> By: Alexander Fleming http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/30/emeco-settles-dispute-over-navy-chair-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-1105466 Alexander Fleming Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:20:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=287289#comment-1105466 As usual, we only see only one part of the problem: the rights of the big companies being trespassed by producers selling "copies". How about the fact that these companies, like Vitra or Fritz Hansen or, by the way, Emeco, bought the copyright some 80 years ago and now, on behalf of this, they sell some classics that were intended by their designers to be mass produced and mass enjoyed for a price never affordable for those they were intended to reach? I doubt Le Corbusier or Mies ever intended their armchairs to be sold at five times the the minimum wage. They were left wing, as all of the avant garde designers were in the thirties). And I doubt the Navy utilitarian chair was meant to cost 850 Euros (as it reaches the European stores). The difference from 850 to 50 Euros is only Emeco's shareholders' profit, not Emeco's "commitment to quality". Thank God Penicillin was invented before some of these guys ever thought about buying the rights from its inventor or one dose would cost a lifetime's savings. As usual, we only see only one part of the problem: the rights of the big companies being trespassed by producers selling “copies”. How about the fact that these companies, like Vitra or Fritz Hansen or, by the way, Emeco, bought the copyright some 80 years ago and now, on behalf of this, they sell some classics that were intended by their designers to be mass produced and mass enjoyed for a price never affordable for those they were intended to reach?

I doubt Le Corbusier or Mies ever intended their armchairs to be sold at five times the the minimum wage. They were left wing, as all of the avant garde designers were in the thirties). And I doubt the Navy utilitarian chair was meant to cost 850 Euros (as it reaches the European stores).

The difference from 850 to 50 Euros is only Emeco’s shareholders’ profit, not Emeco’s “commitment to quality”. Thank God Penicillin was invented before some of these guys ever thought about buying the rights from its inventor or one dose would cost a lifetime’s savings.

]]> By: thm1993 http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/30/emeco-settles-dispute-over-navy-chair-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-1103042 thm1993 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:11:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=287289#comment-1103042 To be fair, it is practically identical in every way. To be fair, it is practically identical in every way.

]]> By: David http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/30/emeco-settles-dispute-over-navy-chair-copy/comment-page-1/#comment-1102703 David Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:30:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=287289#comment-1102703 Can't wait to see what kind of settlement they'll come to with Fritz Hansen over the Egg Chair. Can’t wait to see what kind of settlement they’ll come to with Fritz Hansen over the Egg Chair.

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