February 21, 2010

Logos of our Lives

Category: Academic,Fair Use,IP Law,Politics — Biella @ 8:52 am

Two of the more influential books that have taken swipe at our contemporary intellectual property landscape concerned themselves with trademark, logos, and capitalism. Here i am thinking of Rosemary Coombe’s seminal The Cultural Life of Intellectual Property Law and Naomi Klein’s more activist take on the subject, No Logo. What would happen if you condensed the arguments in these two books into a 15 minute video?

Well, this morning I found out what this might look like.

Someone pointed me to a mind blowing video that might be called All Logo, All the Time: an amazing visual and dystopian rendition of the alphabet soup of logos, trademark acronyms, corporate mascots that pervade our landscape, one might even say consciousness. I would take a whirl and watch before the IP police take it down.

3 Comments »

  1. http://www.ifccenter.com/films/2010-academy-award-nominated-animated-short-films/
    Logorama is part of this, for a limited time.

    Comment by Kevin Mark — February 21, 2010 @ 3:37 pm

  2. whoa! too late – the IP police nabbed it within 4 days

    Comment by nano — February 25, 2010 @ 9:06 am

  3. this ‘futureshock’ video is a clever send up. No actual logos… but vivid commentary nonetheless.

    Comment by nano — February 25, 2010 @ 9:09 am

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