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October 10

feminist art

I was looking at something on RedBubble. It happened to consist of Lady Justice, Columbia and the Statue of Liberty standing together. All three female figures are standing behind a Nevertheless, she persisted banner being held by Columbia. The artist happens to be Caviglia, who is based in Brooklyn. Does Caviglia have a real name? (The artwork I described is nice.)2604:2000:7113:9D00:E489:B375:36EB:1AC5 (talk) 10:02, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No idea what her real name is, but here's her etsy shop. --M @r ē ino 14:46, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am not certain whether it is an individual artist or a group. Their page in tumblr is called "Caviglia's Cabinet of Curiosites" and their motto is "At Caviglia's Cabinet of Curiosites, we draw pictures and write stories. Some are true. Some are not." Later on they explain: "We specialize in pin ups, chorus girls, creative portraits, fairy tales and robots." Dimadick (talk) 20:16, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Intellectual property vs producing the same effect as other people's work

It seems to me that a company will come up with a cool e-mail feature, like making the e-mail messages appear in a single conversation instead of multiple pages, and then some time later, other companies all start doing the same thing and upgrading the appearance of their own e-mail services. Is there a limit to intellectual property in the realm of business and technology? Or does this mean that one can copy the effect of another's work but has to do the work by himself? 140.254.70.33 (talk) 14:50, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's complicated and depends largely on what lawyers can convince a court of law. In general, concepts like Idea–expression divide come into play here, except that legal protections of intellectual property do sometimes protect ideas as well as expressions, i.e. something like a patent can provide limited legal protections for ideas as well as expressions, though only if you can convince a court one way or the other. Legal concepts such as copyright and trademark and patents all come into play in intellectual property law, but not in identical ways and the relationships between legal and illegal uses of intellectual property are a quagmire of complex law. --Jayron 32 15:40, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]