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To think you can't copyright a flower FFS?

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Alviona · 18/07/2021 16:46

Just trying to work out how to take rose cuttings and came across this:

He says (at 1:28) something like, "When we went to the nursery, we wanted old-fashioned ones, not anything new that's copyrighted, that we couldn't take cuttings from..."

Can this be correct?

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Flaunch · 18/07/2021 16:49

Of course you can. Rose breeders like David Austin protect their rights to their plants and unauthorised propagation is illegal.

Cocomarine · 18/07/2021 16:51

Not a lawyer.
Don’t see why not.
A naturally occurring flower - no.
A variety that a horticulturist has spent time with multi-generational cross breeding* - why not?

*breeding sounds like the wrong word, but you know what I mean!

Lockheart · 18/07/2021 16:53

The briefest of Google searches would have told you that it is, and even how to do it...

CuriousaboutSamphire · 18/07/2021 16:53

I know how this works in crafting, clothes making when a fabric has a tm, like that flowery stuff that is all a copy of 1950s fabric anyway

To use in your garden, should be fine.

To sell, hell no.

Streamside · 18/07/2021 17:31

Willow wands, woven pieces of Willow which are plaited together into a stick are copyrighted.

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