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"Designers retain full rights to their work" In fashion school, they told us that it's nearly impossible to receive intellectual property protection on fashion
by heyrhett 16y ago
"Designers retain full rights to their work"
In fashion school, they told us that it's nearly impossible to receive intellectual property protection on fashion design, since the courts have decided that people have been making clothing for a long time, so it's hard to prove that you've done something sufficiently complex and novel.
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- andreasklinger 16y agoOur point is not that it's not like that in the fashion industry. We just say that WE don't take it away from you. We just need the legal rights to do our process.
- jamesbritt 16y agoWow. That's amazing. I knew that IP protection on fashion was weak/difficult, but was unaware of the reasoning. What's bizarre is that people have been making music for a long time, too, yet courts have no trouble locking it down with copyright. I wonder if this is a notational thing. There's an established and (somewhat) robust notation for music allows it to be "fixed in any tangible medium of expression", as required by US copyright law. Is there even such a thing for fashion?
- andreasklinger 16y agoThere is this great TED talk about IP in fashion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0
- infinite8s 16y agoWouldn't this "tangible medium of expression" be the clothes themselves?