#replicalighting

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🤔Serious Q - Suggestions please! + We’ve seen a spike in instances where retailers simply don’t know that some of the products they’re selling are copies of #originaldesign + Too quickly design fans & industry jump to the automatic conclusion that certain retailers / e-tailers are playing dumb - but it’s not always the case we’re finding + #replicafurniture #replicalighting resellers fall into three categories 👉 don’t know / don’t care 👉 do know / don’t care 👉 don’t know / do care .... or might care of made aware + It’s the segment that care or might care we’re curious about how to educate / advise / help steer away from products they honestly do not know are #knockoffs of an original product + Two instances in the past fortnight -the retail network, once aware, has agreed to quit selling specific copies - a smaller percentage of the whole, agreed, but a significant start when considering large chains w massive online reach ✔️ + Whilst these retailers are not legally bound to do so under current design IP laws - it signals a market segment we want to reach + So how can the ADA help manage this? Suggestions welcome pls! + Our hands a full ATM w a range of things including about to announce 2 new in-house staffing roles + Are you keen to support us? ADA Members directly enable our education & advocacy - if your business or brand is committed to helping us build awareness about the irreversible damage to our industry caused by #designtheft 👉consider joining the ADA 👉🔗link in Bio ☝️ + #replicaisrake #stopdesigntheft #getrealbuyrealsupplyreal #intellectualproperty #supportoriginaldesign #supportauthenticdesign #authenticdesign #authenticdesignalliance #thedesigndirectory https://www.instagram.com/p/B0j_dRBFeeC/?igshid=1cs81dpu4o91e

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The Australian lighting industry is savaged by replicas, copies & the endemic problem of substitution (more on the latter below!) + @ismobjects discovered a design from their collection by @chrisconnelldesign is currently advertised by a major discount homeward chain 👉swipe for copy🙄 + KAPELO was design registered prior to launching in 2008 - IP protection that expired early last year - leaving the design to be legally copied! + Result? ISM are now forced to discontinue the collection “its an awful way to be forced to retire products” Celina Clarke ISM co-founder stating they refuse to make the product offshore to match the chainstore price “it wouldn’t represent our ethos of producing quality products” + So lax IP laws force early retirement of commercially viable products - locally made products that have a broader impact beyond the designer & the commissioning brand - impact that extends to loss of business for a vast network of suppliers & fabricators + Substitution - more on that later - the vast quantity of products swapped out across the building industry at an alarmingly increased rate ....... continues to garner unfavourable headlines as development projects fall u der the watch dog microscope.... + #lighting #lightingdesign #replicalighting #replicafurniture #industrialdesign #replicaisfake #stopdesigntheft #getrealbuyrealsupplyreal #australiandesign #supportoriginaldesign #supportaustraliandesign #authenticdesignalliance #thedesigndirectory https://www.instagram.com/p/B0e4FpWl52N/?igshid=1e6itrt98jem0