Podcasts Other Center for Internet and Society The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design

The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design

Published: April 3, 2006, 7:30 p.m.

b'The music, film, book, and software industries enforce their copyrights against pirates. But in the much larger global fashion industry, copyright does not protect most original apparel designs, and design "piracy" is a way of life. Why are the rules about copying seemingly so different in the fashion industry? And why is there so little apparent effort by the industry to change those rules?'