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Mon 07 Jul 2009Lost Property
DESIGN COPYRIGHT: 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' So said Pablo Picasso. These days, plagiarism is as rife as ever and in the design industry, it's becoming an increasing contentious issue
ORIGINAL and creative design is, depending on who you ask, either of vital importance to business or vastly overrated - either way businesses are spending more on communication than ever before. In Europe in 2003, creative industries provided 5.6 million jobs and 2.6 per cent of EU GDP. I know this because I lifted the information, indeed the entire sentence, from a report written by someone else. But how common is design theft - ideas and images copied from other work and dragooned into service for unsuspecting businesses?
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