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Book SynopsisMinh-Ha T. Pham examines the practice of social media users monitoring the fashion market for the appearance of fake knock-off fashion, design theft, and plagiarism, showing how it is critically important to the development of global fashion.
Trade Review"Pham’s work offers a thorough look at how online behavior is shaping fashion industry actions and sheds light on the ways the current norms are failing some communities while granting protections to others."
-- Sarah Bartlett Schroeder * Library Journal *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction. “Share This with Your Friends”: Crowdsourcing IP Regulation 1
1. Regulating Fashion IP, Regulating Difference 27
2. The Asian Fashion Copycat 53
3. How Thai Social Media Users Made Balenciaga Pay for Copying the Sampeng Bag 77
4. “Ppl Knocking Each Other off Lol”: Diet Prada’s Politics of Refusal 99
Epilogue. Why We Can't Have Nice Things 125
Notes 131
Bibliography 147
Index 165
