Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion’s free culture
Copyright law’s grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley. She talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion’s free culture.
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ABOUT Johanna Blakley
“As the Deputy Director of the Norman Lear Centre (a media-focused think tank at the University of Southern California) Johanna Blakley spends much of her time exploring how our entertainment interacts with our political, commercial and social habits.
She is especially interested in the surprising impact of intellectual property rights on innovation, organising conferences around the lack of creative ownership in fashion as well as technology and the ownership of creative content.
Johanna has worked across a huge variety of media platforms producing for the web on a large scale, conducting gaming research, co-ordinating events for film festivals and executing consumer research on entertainment and politics. Drawing on this vast body of experience, she also lectures at USC and helped develop their Masters programme in Public Diplomacy.”
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