German fashion label releases their designs on the web

The BBC World Service’s program Culture Shock talks about a German fashion label, Pamoyo, who have started releasing their designs online. The designs are available under the Creative Commons (CC) License.

Pamoyo’s use CC license implies that anyone can use the Pamoyo designs as long as they say that they got their designs from Pamoyo. Also, if they make any changes/improvements to the the design they have to release the changes to the world as well - free of cost.

Listen to the BBC interviewing Pamoyo. It’s worth a listen, as the BBC guy tries to understand why it makes business and artistic sense to release designs of clothes online. Read more about Pamoyo’s license on CC’s pages.

It is heartening to see artists understand and appreciate the usefulness of releasing their works under CC like licenses.