Capitalism 2 and Capitalism Lab Forum

One thing that has bothered me is that regardless of the product, everything could be privately labelled. If a company wants to privately label anything, they should have to ask the company of origin and possibly pay a royalty. Products should have a variable cost when labeling them (Compare changing a label on a bottle to making one type of computer look like another.

TGLS wrote:One thing that has bothered me is that regardless of the product, everything could be privately labelled. If a company wants to privately label anything, they should have to ask the company of origin and possibly pay a royalty. Products should have a variable cost when labeling them (Compare changing a label on a bottle to making one type of computer look like another.

Personally haven't noticed that re-labelling happens that much as it is, so I don't think of it as a problem. Have you seen a lot of it? Are competitors somehow stealing your profits because of it?

Regardless:

I'm content just assuming that when you sell a product, you sell the full rights to resell it (or use it however they wish). If you don't
want somebody to relabel it, set it to internal sales only.

It's just a matter of keeping things simple, rather than breaking the rights into several subgroups. The right to resell, The right to repurpose, The right to relabel, The right to advertising, blah blah blah. There is currently one exception to my "full rights" theory, that being the right to pricing is subject to price agreements. But that's okay, because in my opinion Price Agreements simplify the micromanagement that would result from the likely decision of the vendor manually stopping supply each time a different seller undercuts the manufacturer's retail prices by too much. Sorry that was wordy.

To be fair, I have never seen the AI use labeling either.