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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Understanding Trade Marking 101
You lock your house up when you leave it. You lock you car up when you park it. You lock your email account with a password, but do you lock up your brand name, logo or commercially valuable intangible assets? More and more authors are looking to fully commercially exploit their intellectual property by using the registered trade marks system. A trade mark can be a word, phrase, letter, number, sound, smell, shape, logo, picture or a combination of these. In this session you'll learn how trade marks can help you make the most of your creativity.
About IP Australia
Australia's economic well-being depends on capturing the benefits of increased innovation and creativity. IP Australia's role is to provide a strong intellectual property (IP) system, which promotes innovation, investment and trade. IP Australia does this by administering the patents, trade marks, designs and plant breeder's rights systems, as well as producing industry specific tools, which help business to fully exploit their creativity and innovation.
About the ASA
The Australian Society of Authors (which incorporates the Society of Book Illustrators [SOBI]) is the peak professional association for Australian literary creators and has over 3000 members. The Comics/Graphic Novels Portfolio was formed in mid 2007, to provide industry support to Australian artists and writers currently working in the comics medium and, in particular, the graphic novel format.
BRISBANE SEMINAR INFORMATION
About the Speaker – Paul Loeffler-White
Paul Loeffler-White is the Queensland State Outreach Manager for IP Australia. He worked in the areas of legal metrology, fair trading and product safety before moving to IP Australia 15 years ago. Paul has an extensive knowledge and understanding of IP issues and their processes as well as an in depth understanding of a range of strategic issues facing the public and private sectors particularly their effect on small to medium enterprises.
Date: Saturday 10 April 2010
Time: 6.00pm to 7.00pm
Venue: Supanova Seminar Room (downstairs), Exhibition Building, RNA Showgrounds, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane (to be confirmed)
Entry fee: There is no charge to attend the seminar. However, attendees must be exhibitors or hold a One Day Pass ($23.80 through Ticketek or $25.00 at the door) or a Supafan Three Day Weekend Pass ($49. 50 through Ticketek or $60.00 at the door). Ticketek Bookings – 132 849 or http://premier.ticketek.com.au.
Further Information: Check the event guide on Supanova.
MELBOURNE SEMINAR INFORMATION
About the Speaker – John Jenkins
John Jenkins is the State Outreach Manager of Victoria/Tasmania for IP Australia. John has been developing alliances with a range of government and private service providers for over 14 years to inform them and their small business clients about the critical role of IP in building sustainable businesses. During this time John has delivered presentations on intellectual property to various private, educational and business groups.
Date: Saturday 17 April 2010
Time: 6.00pm to 7.00pm
Venue: Supanova Seminar Room, opposite Exhibition Hall (via Main Entrance off Epsom Rd), Melbourne Showgrounds
Entry fee: There is no charge to attend the seminar. However, attendees must be exhibitors or hold a One Day Pass ($23.85 through Ticketek or $25.00 at the door) or a Supafan Weekend Pass ($39. 50 through Ticketek or $50.00 at the door). Ticketek Bookings – 132 849 or http://premier.ticketek.com.au.
Further Information: Check the event guide on Supanova.
SYDNEY SEMINAR INFORMATION
About the Speaker – Eunika Janus
Eunika Janus is the NSW Outreach Manager at IP Australia. As part of her role, Eunika is responsible for raising awareness of intellectual property issues amongst the business and general community in NSW, with a particular focus on creative industries. Before joining IP Australia, Eunika worked as a solicitor in the trade marks practice of one of Australia’s largest corporate law firms.
Date: Saturday 19 June 2009
Time: 6.00pm to 7.00pm
Venue: Supanova Seminar Room, The Dome, Sydney Olympic Park
Entry fee: There is no charge to attend the seminar. However, attendees must be exhibitors or hold a One Day Pass ($23.80 through Ticketek or $25.00 at the door) or a Supafan Weekend Pass ($39. 50 through Ticketek or $50.00 at the door). Ticketek Bookings – 132 849 or http://premier.ticketek.com.au.
Further Information: Check the event guide on Supanova.
PERTH SEMINAR INFORMATION
About the Speaker – Nigel Stewart
Nigel Stewart is WA Outreach Manager for IP Australia and has been providing support and assistance to clients for the past 10 years. Nigel has more recently been focused on participation in education forums for business support networks, which he finds both stimulating and rewarding.
Date: Saturday 26 June 2010
Time: 6.00 to 7.00pm
Venue: Supanova Seminar Room, Robinson Pavillion, Claremont Showgrounds, Perth
Entry fee: There is no charge to attend the seminar. However, attendees must be exhibitors or hold a One Day Pass ($23.80 through Ticketek or $25.00 at the door) or a Supafan Weekend Pass ($39. 50 through Ticketek or $50.00 at the door). Ticketek Bookings – 132 849 or http://premier.ticketek.com.au.
Further Information: Check the event guide on Supanova.
Sponsored by the Australian Society of Authors and Supanova
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Australian Artists on Poverty Line
Today's Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting article called "The poverty trap ensnaring creative Australians", which discusses that nothing much has changed since the Australia Council released its Don't Give Up Your Day Job report ten years ago on the financial status of artists and identified that a third lived below the poverty line with half earning less than $7300 from their art.
Dancers, musicians, composers, painters and photographers remain vulnerable to economic cyles, enduring long periods of unemployment and often juggling one, two or even three jobs ... The latest census data suggests that things might have become worse for the nation's artists.
The recent Australian Society of Author (ASA) Comics/Graphic Novels Porfolio survey backs this up – comics creatives are not terribly well paid either. We actually salute the Danish solution presented in the SMH article which mentions that select artists are granted a stipend for their entire lives.
Yes, this situation reflects the current economic reality but let's not make this news a self-fulfilling prophecy – maybe we need to embrace our chosen professions from the point of view of attracting abundance. According to Law of Attraction principles, as much as we are creators of our various comics properties we are also co-creators with the universe of our own lives. To tune in properly we must be focused, passionate, and activate our imagination and our internal resources so that the we live the future we want to create for ourselves as if it is happening already. So Australian comics creatives can lead the charge and dream the dream ... perpetual comics work in the genre we love, BIG paychecks and opportunities to do what we want when we want. Sigh. Bliss.
Mermaid Artists 1 – Henry (O'Hara) Clive
We thought we might bring you a new series of posts on celebrated artists who have introduced mermaids into their body of work. We thank our friend Nick for alerting us to this absolute sumptuous piece in pastel by Australian Hollywood artist Henry (O'Hara) Clive. We couldn't find much information on him or indeed the piece – we think it's a cover called "The Mermaid" from the American Weekly magazine (26 March 1939). There are variations on the spelling of his name so we've got little to go on. However, we did find this one piece so if you want to read more about Henry go to the grapefruitmoongallery website.
Apologies
We've both been working 16-17 hour days, seven days a week and have been too tired to blog – hence the silence. We'll probably be back on track in mid March some time so we'll been blogging sporadically till that time and be fully on board from then. In the meantime ... watch the space above for some recent discoveries.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Shimmer Baby Mermaid Tails [LINK UPDATED 19/06/12]
We've been corresponding with Renee who recently opened the Shimmerbaby Mermaids website – an online shop for all your mermaid needs. She sent us these pics yesterday so we thought you might want to have a peek at her tails for sale. Oh, and she runs mermaid-themed birthday parties and mermaid camps. She has three mermaid tails on order for the Australia Day celebrations an is working on a black mermaid tail – we definitely want to see that one!
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