Slip Casting Mold & Copyrights

[stormynolen]

My question is how does copyright impact slip casting?

 

My grandmother past a way not to long ago and I now have many of her slip casting molds. Some of these molds have the manufacture name and copyright logo etc. I also know that these can also be purchased online. How does this process work? Once you own the mold you can do as you wish with it? Create plates, cups, bowels etc and then sell them? or is the process of selling them not allowed with the copyright? I'm a little confused on how this might impact me as an artist or a future business with selling online slip-cast items.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Stormy

[Chilly]

I would think you can use the moulds to cast items with no problem, but if you used the moulds to make and sell more moulds you would be in trouble.

[Mark C.]

You can cast and sell the forms without issue.Make 10,ooo and sell them-no issues

Making molds and selling them exactly like those is a no -no.

My guess is most of the mold companies are long gone  by now really.

mark

[BeckyH]

It can more problematic if you find something you like and then make a mold of it. If it's is an item with a distinctive shape, it's probably protected.

[CarlCravens]

But please don't sell bowels, whether you cast them in a mold or not.  Ew.

[Mark369]

Most of the mold companies have been bought by ones still in business.  

[Benzine]

I don't know Carl, ceramic bowels could be a statement of sorts. Normally, we eat food off of a ceramic ware, and it eventually ends up in our bowels. But if we eat food of a ceramic bowel, it's like reversing the order man..... *Does the mind blown gesture*

 

It could even be a new "trend"; see other topic.

[PSC]

Making a mold of the bowel sounds messy.

[Babs]

AS a haggis eater........ just remember to rinse them before use

[Lampman]

I have a one-of-a-kind mold I created in 2008, where would be the best place to sell it?.

These are pictures of the spirals that the mold produces.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fLo4R7CowtVHUiNq6

[Callie Beller Diesel]

There's not much of a resale market for used molds. Usually people have to pay to have them hauled away. But there's a buy and sell part of the forum for studio items like this.

[Mark C.]

I get your mold is a speciality one but find a buyer will be hard.

[Lampman]

I was thinking somebody might want to put the spirals in production, The design has never been in production.https://photos.app.goo.gl/9eDcRp3eEUoCn4FcA

[Mark C.]

Finding the buyer will be hard.

[liambesaw]

Especially these days when you can 3d print whatever the heck you want and then mold it.

 

[Lampman]

I had not thought of that, once it is printed out does it need to be fired?.

[Callie Beller Diesel]

Depends on what it’s printed out of. I’ve seen printers use powdered clay mixed with resins, and some that behave more like extruders.

 

[liambesaw]

You can also print a polymer master and make a plaster molds of it.  Hammerly ceramics does this.