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The Knockoff Economy
2012
Overview
From the shopping mall to the corner bistro, knockoffs are everywhere in today's marketplace. Conventional wisdom holds that copying kills creativity, and that laws that protect against copies are essential to innovation—and economic success. But are copyrights and patents always necessary? This book argues that creativity can not only survive in the face of copying, but can thrive. The book approaches the question of incentives and innovation in a wholly new way—by exploring creative fields where copying is generally legal, such as fashion, food, and even professional football. By uncovering these important but rarely studied industries, the text reveals a nuanced and fascinating relationship between imitation and innovation. In some creative fields, copying is kept in check through informal industry norms enforced by private sanctions. In others, the freedom to copy actually promotes creativity. High fashion gave rise to the very term “knockoff,” yet the freedom to imitate great designs only makes the fashion cycle run faster—and forces the fashion industry to be even more creative. The book carries the analysis from food to font design to football plays to finance, examining how and why each of these vibrant industries remains innovative even when imitation is common. There is an important thread that ties all these instances together—successful creative industries can evolve to the point where they become inoculated against—and even profit from—a world of free and easy copying. And there are important lessons here for copyright-focused industries, like music and film, that have struggled as digital technologies have made copying increasingly widespread and difficult to stop.
Publisher
Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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ISBN
9780195399783, 0195399781
