Lear Center Publishes Research Reports
The Lear Center's landmark conference on creativity and ownership in the fashion industry has produced three research reports now available online. The Ready to Share project explores the fashion industry's enthusiastic embrace of sampling, appropriation and borrowed inspiration, core components of every creative process.
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Ready to Share bibliography
Presented by the Lear Center's Creativity, Commerce & Culture project, and sponsored by The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising/FIDM, our 2005 conference featured provocative trend forecasts, sleek fashion shows and an eclectic mix of experts and artists from the fashion, music, TV and film industries.
Participants included: - Cate Adair, costume designer for Desperate Housewives
- Rose Apodaca, West Coast Bureau Chief, Women's Wear Daily
- John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation
- T Bone Burnett, musician and producer
- Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President of Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Music
- Danger Mouse, creator of the Grey Album
 Tom Ford, former Creative Director for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent - Kevan Hall, fashion designer and former Design and Creative Director for Halston
- Kevin Jones, Curator of the FIDM Museum
- Martin Kaplan, Director of the Norman Lear Center and Associate Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication
- Rick Karr, television correspondent and writer
- Michael Patrick King, executive producer of Sex and the City
- Norman Lear, producer and director
- Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times fashion critic
- Rich Nichols, producer for The Roots
- Sam Phillips, Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter
- Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress, singer, director and producer
- Cameron Silver, President of Decades, Inc., Los Angeles and London; creative consultant for Azzaro, Paris
- Rani Singh, Director of the Harry Smith Archives and Senior Research Associate at the Getty Research Institute
- Jonathan Taplin, Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication; TV and film producer
- Guy Trebay, New York Times style reporter
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University; author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity
- David Wolfe, Creative Director of the Doneger Group
The Creativity, Commerce & Culture project is funded in part by a generous gift from the Center for the Public Domain.
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