Press releases
Fighting design piracy on the World Wide Web - issued 1 May 2005
In what is proving to be a very exciting year for her business, Sally Spencer has just launched her new website and online shop, Jewellery by Sally Jane, as well as joining the organisation Anti Copying In Design (ACID).
Having developed two exciting new collections, Fossillery which features impressions of ammonites within fine silver and Secret Messages which uses Morse code in beads to spell a message, Sally wanted to protect her designs prior to launching the website and online shop and felt that ACID would help her achieve this.
Endorsed by the presenter of Channel 4’s Grand Designs, Kevin McCloud, himself a successful designer, ACID operates a Design Register managed by their UK associate lawyers. They encourage members to create a paper trail so that independent proof of the creation date of a design is established.
Having shown her new designs to a few people, their enthusiasm for the pieces was exciting as were their comments that they had never seen anything like them before and this prompted Sally to investigate protecting her designs, the favourite of which is the Secret Message necklace which uses rose quartz, long associated with romantic love together with white mother of pearl to spell the words “Will you marry me?” in Morse code finished with a sterling silver clasp in the shape of a question mark.
The Fossillery range of jewellery was created to combine Sally’s love of nature and the amazing fossils she had found whilst walking on the beaches along the Jurassic coast in Dorset and Devon. Combining strong geometric shapes in fine silver with impressions of ammonites together with a rainbow of different gemstone beads has resulted in a very unusual collection, each piece of which is as unique as the fossils which inspired them.
For further details please visit www.jewellerybysallyjane.co.uk or call 07788 712831
All copyright, design rights and intellectual property rights existing in our designs and products and in the images, text and design of this website are and will remain the property of Sally Spencer. Any infringement of these rights will be pursued vigorously. All designs, images and text are © 2005 Sally Spencer