Comments on: Big Corporate Licensing vs. Cottage Industry https://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/big-corporate-licensing-vs-cottage-industry/ Art and life by and about Joy Alyssa Day of Spherical Magic Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeanie Alston https://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/big-corporate-licensing-vs-cottage-industry/#comment-734 Fri, 03 May 2013 23:47:42 +0000 http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=1917#comment-734 I have made four Jayne hats, which I gave away or sold years ago because I look terrible in a Jayne hat* and some were special requests. I have also made an "Amigurumi Fat Baby" because it avoided the Doctor Who loophole issue. I was willing to buy the actual toy, but it took me years to find one IRL and when I finally did, I choked at the price and was glad I'd DIY'd. I hope all of these people can somehow get around this stupid crap by changing the name. I almost want to go make another damn hat out of spite, but I suspect that Ravelry and the like have probably been scoured of all hat patterns by now. (I'm afraid to check.) I gotta give huge props to the Controversial Hat story, though. "We got takedown for a She-Ra like costume but the company had no interest in licensing it so we're left unable to offer something people wanted." This is what drives me crazy about this "licensing" and "exclusivity" shit. People will buy a product if you make it and it's a reasonable price. It annoys the shit out of me that when there is clearly an audience to buy something, those in charge of it won't allow it whatsoever. "You can't infringe on MY DOMAIN!" "Okay, well, can you sell some of these instead?" "No, we don't wanna. Just shove it and don't have any." Which makes me want to send another mental cheer at the Veronica Mars movie folks for getting around that. I am sorry for ThinkGeek that they pretty much put a ton of Etsy sellers out of business. They sound sorry too--too bad there really isn't a way of putting those worms back in the can now, for them or anyone. Fucking party poopers.

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By: Joy Alyssa Day https://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/big-corporate-licensing-vs-cottage-industry/#comment-726 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:12:11 +0000 http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=1917#comment-726 I'd love to know the reason behind it too. I kept asking him what my minimum sales projections should be for him to approve us and he wouldn't answer me. He kept going back to that I didn't have enough distribution points lined up that I was already working through. I know for a FACT that the low run high priced replicas for sale in the UK are not in hundreds of stores. As far as I can see, they're only on their own website, yet THEY have licensing, through BBC Worldwide!

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By: Aaron https://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/big-corporate-licensing-vs-cottage-industry/#comment-725 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:44:03 +0000 http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=1917#comment-725 In a previous job one of my duties was to order from A Supply Depot of Office Things. I wanted twelve (12) ink pens. I got a gross (144) of pens, twelve boxes of twelve each. I called The Depot and they said, "Keep 'em." I was charged for my dozen and got 132 free.

In another previous job I searched for lost parts. At year end we went into a crunch-mode and just wrote off anything less than $100 without even a quick look-see.

If Bill Gates saw a fifty dollar bill on the sidewalk, he'd lose money stopping to pick it up.

At some point someone has to make the economic decision: is the juice worth the squeeze? Is the effort and expense of a search worth the potential gain of finding the < $100 lost item? Is the value of the returned ink pens worth the trouble of picking up the pens, or having the customer ship them back?

Some corporate mind has to make a decision influenced by whatever reasons or priorities. The decision has to make sense from some point of view. One might think that point of view requires the head shoved up the vulgar orifice. I couldn't possibly comment on THAT. I would like to know the reasons or priorities behind the decisions.

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By: Vickie https://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/big-corporate-licensing-vs-cottage-industry/#comment-724 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:50:32 +0000 http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=1917#comment-724 It's their loss. It's the same as the Jayne hats. It's so sad that greed over takes common sense.

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By: dbvictoria https://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/big-corporate-licensing-vs-cottage-industry/#comment-723 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:39:41 +0000 http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=1917#comment-723 Such a shame that they spend their money on lawyers to stifle instead of earning revenue working with artists to license merchandise.

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