Welcome

Hi there,

Welcome to the discussion on Cake Sculpture and Intellectual Property! If you have ended up here from the Ivory Cakes site, thanks for taking an interest and joining in. However you got here, I hope you enjoy taking part.

I hope to use this area to explain why all those Copyright notices you have seen on Ivory Cakes are so important, and to provoke people to think about the importance and implications of Intellectual Property in this context. I also want to thank Ivery Music for being kind enough to host this discussion for us.

It seems that the usual way that the cake trade operates promotes the use of other people's hard work and effort. For example you see a cake you like in a magazine and ask a decorator to re-create it for you. Now perhaps this comes from the business traditionally being the arena of older relatives and friends who decorate cakes as, say, a retirement hobby. But that's not what Ivory Cakes is about. I spotted early on in my training that I could push the boundaries with the art form, and began to produce structurally new and creative cakes - hence the term 'Sculptor'. Each cake that I create has a lot of time invested in it, and each new concept and design is the result of a lot of work.

It is for this reason that I feel so strongly about changing the way that the majority of people see things in relation to Cake Sculpture Copyright. It is not OK to re-produce someone's work and profit from it yourself.

So please, let me know what you think...

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Sue.