民訴記(102) - 版權所有

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民訴記(102) - 版權所有
By Kwokman
Date: 20^th January, 2012

Intellectual properties should be respected, whether it’s design, literature or technology.  If you’ve spent efforts creating something original, you wouldn’t like someone else copying it. However, some arguments over patents and copyrights have gotten out of control lately. Recently D&G in Hong Kong has banned locals from taking pictures in front of their stores. They fear that others would copy their display and product designs. Window dressing changes all the time. Who’s going to keep up with you? Fashions are not secrets. Do your customers have to agree not to take pictures of your products and not go to public places in your products? When you attend fashion shows in NY, Milan and Paris, do you stop all photographers when your models come out? Most notably, you were on the street. If you don’t want to be in pictures, please close your shops. So-called designer labels like yours aren’t innocent of copying. Stop claiming that little stripe on an ordinary bag your design. People are just buying your brand names anyway. Label worshippers have no concept of aesthetics and design. Otherwise, why would anyone buy bags printed with two alphabets all over the surface? Taking pictures in front of your stores is free publicity for you. You stand to benefit as long as you keep up the quality.

Arrogant people take over the streets in New York too. A Fiat commercial features Jen Lo driving in NY. Two shots in Bronx happen to include a giant graffiti in the background saying “I love the Bronx.” It was a copyrighted graffiti and the “artist” sued Fiat after the video was released. They later settled under undisclosed terms. That was a public street and it was graffiti people! Who would know there’s such a thing as copyrighted graffiti? Graffiti is wrong to begin with. If you don’t want to be seen, please erase it at your own cost and stop claiming public space as your own. McDonald’s also has a trademarked logo. If they start suing people for taking pictures of their stores, you might as well ban photography in all urban areas.

Patent litigations on technology products are even more vigorous than designer labels. Actually, one should not call these technology products because they’re no more than electrical appliances, e.g. phones, game consoles, music and video players. Apple has appropriately dropped the word computer from its name. Apple sued HTC for enabling one touch calling from within an email that contains a phone number. Apple had patented that “invention” and the judge agreed. Motorola must be regretting not getting a patent on making cell phones with an enclosure and another one on powering cell phones with batteries. So competitors would have to burn coal to power their phones, which would be circuit boards and some loose parts without an enclosure. Microsoft has also brought a case against a British retailer recently. If you’re old enough, you’d know computers used to come with a recovery disc, which has long been eliminated because of cost cutting. Burning your own recovery disc is tedious and time consuming. British retailer Comet sells Windows recovery discs to their customers as a service. Microsoft has sued Comet for copyright infringement. They don’t serve their own customers and accuse others for serving the customers. How ridiculous! People used to get patents on aviation, rocket science, nuclear power and super computer. How these random ideas such as one touch calling warrant patenting is beyond common sense. Let me get a patent on eating salad before entree. Everyone else must eat their salad at the end of the meal unless they pay me a license fee. I’ll also copyright the word one. You must pay me before saying, writing or printing the word one. That’s not exactly far-fetched as Apple has trademarked the term App Store. Microsoft is challenging Apple in court because it’s unreasonable to trademark a generic term such as App Store.  This time, I think Microsoft does have a point.

精選歌曲﹕

軟硬天師 - 川保久齡大戰山本耀司
歌手：林海峰 作曲：Blow/Green/Matheney/Hutchinson/Westbrook
填詞：軟硬天師  編曲：王利名

同志　乜你今朝又咁遲!
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梗係摸咗落去中環嘅Joyce
再過埋隔離嗰間啫啫Armani

硬:
我盲目朝拜各國各款名牌子
搵番最相熟嗰個女Sell屎
攞完Discount就跟住去數銀紙
多謝六萬七千找番兩毫子
我只係買件T恤係Oversize
上面印住一個好鬼大嘅C字
究竟呢件"嘅"嘢係咩料子
係嚟自意大利嘅無敵新名牌子?
叫做Italiano加"He No磨Eat池"
我猛咁點頭扮晒懶有Taste
準備轉身辣埋Issey Miyaki
點知佢話聽朝有Pre-sale我就興過火屎!

和唱:
這一串牌子 穿起好似Yuppies 個老細無話我知
這一串牌子 必須有金嘅AE 我要猛咁透支

軟:
瘋狂嘅Design有JPG
金魚缸笠頭十足怪物小王子
着住Comme des Garcons走去逼巴士
孭個鴨仔袋就話係設計師
襯條501嘅Levi's
着咗Dr.Martin就好似行得快啲

硬:
曾幾何時靚仔都着Bally

軟:
鹹魚翻生又有Kickers

硬:
生活嘅倉庫我會走去UNY

軟:
大丸有名貴雪糕糯米糍

硬:
Tokio Kumakai大戰Issey Miyaki

軟:
Comme ca du Mode力撼British Colony

硬:
C.P.Company發夢贏咗Yohji?

軟:
Bennetton個細佬叫Bossini

硬:
永遠懷念與發街嗰間Esprit!

軟:
其實呢啲牌子都似係Fantasy

和唱:
這一串牌子 啲錢會駛得好易 着咗係咪靚仔啲
這一串牌子 根本得個睇字 我再買就變乞兒

硬:
我既然扮得設計師
就要去Headquarters搵阿高佬Jackie
電番個靚頭學Terrence Trent D'arby
點知電完出嚟似我偶像希斯!
又有啲似荷蘭嗰個古烈治
電咗個靚頭梗要約人開P
我落完Soho再落JJ'S
佢話Members Only我話我有Face
我識得大傻 可否通融啲呢?
佢一腳伸我過咗尖東海皮
我一身名牌佢都對我如此
究竟點樣先係一個成功Yuppies?

軟:
其實呢啲通通都係物質主義
你過份沉迷就會呆呆痴痴
做人千萬不可玩物喪志
樣樣事都係要適可而止 同志! 同志 同志 ...

和唱:
這一串牌子 啲錢會駛得好易 着咗係咪靚仔啲
這一串牌子 根本得個睇字 我再買就變乞兒
這一串牌子 穿起好似Yuppies 個老細無話我知
這一串牌子 必須有金嘅AE 我要猛咁透支