Protecting brands

This Sunday 28 February, I’ll be speaking at Buffet, the first tradeshow and public expo in the Asia-Pacific region dedicated to Streetwear, Sneakers, Contemporary Style & Culture, Design, T-Shirts, Accessories and much more.
It’ll be a conversation between Eddie Zammit, t-shirt collector and editor of T-World magazine, and I.
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The AFL have sent a letter of demand to a fan website for alleged unauthorised use of AFL intellectual property. The intellectual property in question includes images, the trade mark ‘AFL’ and club names including nicknames.
The AFL had given the fan site ContestedFooty until Wednesday to remove all IP owned by the AFL from the [...]

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I am delighted to announce the launch of a new plain English, how-to kit on intellectual property law for graphic designers. Especially since I wrote chapter 6!
I’ve covered issues like:
• pitching – clients taking ideas, use of images
• concepts – generating names, modifying a previous designer’s work
• folio use – what permission is needed
The how-to [...]

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