EU expands copyright to furniture and extends term by a century
I wonder who&#x27;s being affected by this law. Very few people buy designer furniture costing thousands of Euros. Furthermore you can have 100,000 songs, 1,000 movies, 100 clothes but only a few chairs. So the Chinese will keep selling cheap furniture with some changes to the design and the EU manufacturers won&#x27;t make much more.<p>Example<p>This chair is extremely popular in cheap restaurants, plastic made <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dearchiworld.wordpress.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;no-14-chair-michael-thonet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dearchiworld.wordpress.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;no-14-chair-mi...</a><p>The Thonet company still sells it (couldn&#x27;t find the price) and I found it on Alibaba starting from $25. It&#x27;s so old that&#x27;s out of the reach of the law but if it wasn&#x27;t do we really think they&#x27;re not going to tweak the design and that their EU customers will care and go buying from Thonet instead?