As editor in chief of Glossy magazine, Imogen Tate is queen of the fashion world … until Eve, her conniving twenty-something former assistant, returns from business school with plans to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and re-launch Glossy as an app. Suddenly, the Louboutin is on the other foot; Imogen may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she doesn’t know Facebook from Foursquare and once got her phone stuck in Japanese for three days. But Imogen will do anything to reclaim her kingdom—even if it means channeling her inner millennial and going head to head with a social-media monster.

From the shopping mall to the corner bistro, knockoffs are everywhere in today's marketplace. Conventional wisdom holds that copying kills creativity, and that laws that protect against copies are essential to innovation--and economic success. But are copyrights and patents always necessary? In The Knockoff Economy, Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman provocatively argue that creativity can not only survive in the face of copying, but can thrive. The Knockoff Economy approaches the question of incentives and innovation in a wholly new way--by exploring creative fields where copying is generally legal, such as fashion, food, and even professional football. By uncovering these important but rarely studied industries, Raustiala and Sprigman reveal a nuanced and fascinating relationship between imitation and innovation. In some creative fields, copying is kept in check through informal industry norms enforced by private sanctions. In others, the freedom to copy actually promotes creativity. High fashion gave rise to the very term "knockoff," yet the freedom to imitate great designs only makes the fashion cycle run faster--and forces the fashion industry to be even more creative. Raustiala and Sprigman carry their analysis from food to font design to football plays to finance, examining how and why each of these vibrant industries remains innovative even when imitation is common. There is an important thread that ties all these instances together--successful creative industries can evolve to the point where they become inoculated against--and even profit from--a world of free and easy copying. And there are important lessons here for copyright-focused industries, like music and film, that have struggled as digital technologies have made copying increasingly widespread and difficult to stop. Raustiala and Sprigman's arguments have been making headlines in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, Le Monde, and at the Freakonomics blog, where they are regular contributors. By looking where few had looked before--at markets that fall outside normal IP law--The Knockoff Economy opens up fascinating creative worlds. And it demonstrates that not only is a great deal of innovation possible without intellectual property, but that intellectual property's absence is sometimes better for innovation.

Driven by a counterintuitive thesis that has been highlighted in both The New Yorker and The New York Times¸ The Knockoff Economy is an engrossing and highly entertaining tour through the economic sectors where piracy both rules and invigorates.

Spice up your dreams with the latest issue of All Faked Up Bedtime Stories. Romantic stories sure to encourage the dreams you desire. In Issue #Three, Theo and Kaira take this friends-to-lovers romance to a whole new level. Theo I have one chance to pitch my book to the biggest movie producer in Hollywood. I expected it to happen in his office, not on a couples' cruise. No problem. I have a friend—and I use that term loosely—who owes me a favor. Bet Kaira never thought this was how I would collect. Kaira When Theo calls, I figure he wants me to read his latest manuscript, not to be his fake girlfriend. I’ve written this story several times so I know how it’s supposed to turn out. But this is different. It’s strictly business and a happily-ever-after never enters my mind. Even the thought is laughable.

Spice up your dreams with the latest issue of All Faked Up Bedtime Stories. Romantic reads sure to encourage the dreams you desire. In Issue #2, Adian and Mollie must fake a marriage of convenience in order to win the grandest prize of all. Adian The plan was a good one—come to Vegas and hope to hit it big. But why chance rolling the dice when I know this is a sure thing? Simple. Get married and spend the honeymoon winning a quarter of a million dollars. It is not about the money, it’s about loyalty to a friend and winning the game. Just missing one thing. A wife. Mollie I recognize the desperate gaze in the man’s eyes at the end of the bar. I imagine the same despair is on my own face. His proposition is enticing; however, I wasn’t expecting that type of proposal. But what the hell, who couldn’t use that kind of money? And you know what they say, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” I guess we’re about to find out if that's true.

The summary of The Knockoff Economy – How Imitation Sparks Innovation presented here include a short review of the book at the start followed by quick overview of main points and a list of important take-aways at the end of the summary. The Summary of The notion that copying and imitation present significant challenges for businesses is called into question by the knockoff economy. Instead, it makes use of specific examples to illustrate how, in this day and age, when it is simpler than it has ever been to copy something, innovation is at its highest point in history. The Knockoff Economy summary includes the key points and important takeaways from the book The Knockoff Economy by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman. Disclaimer: 1. This summary is meant to preview and not to substitute the original book. 2. We recommend, for in-depth study purchase the excellent original book. 3. In this summary key points are rewritten and recreated and no part/text is directly taken or copied from original book. 4. If original author/publisher wants us to remove this summary, please contact us at [email protected].

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