Description
Book SynopsisExploring the debate over the benefits of legal protection for fashion design, this book focuses on how a combination of minimal legal protections for design, evolving social norms, digital technology, and market forces can promote innovation and creativity in a business known for its fast-paced remixing and borrowing. Focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of the main US and EU IP laws that protect fashion design in the world's biggest fashion markets, it describes how recent US case law in copyright and trademark cases has led to misaligned incentives for the industry and a lack of clear protection, while, in the EU, the CJEU's interpretation of the pan-European design rights system has created significant overlap with copyright law and risks, leading to the overprotection of design. The book proposes that creativity and innovation in fashion derive some benefit from a limited unregistered design right protection, and that cumulation with copyright protection is unhelpful. I
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Table of Cases
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Introduction to the Fashion Business: Global Industry, Unclear Rules
2 Creativity, Authorship, Design, and IP Law
3 US IP Law: Vibrant Industry with Little Legal Protection?
4 European Design Rights: The Perfect Solution?
5 Harmonization and Its Opposite (Brexit)
6 Beyond Intellectual Property: Other Dimensions of Protections for Fashion Design
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